Defends is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFENDS in dictionary:

VERB:
• DEFEND, to protect
• resist an attack made on (someone or something); protect from harm or danger
• speak or write in favour of (an action or person); attempt to justify
• compete to retain (a title or seat) in a contest or election
• conduct the case for (the party being accused or sued) in a lawsuit
• (in sport) protect one's goal or wicket rather than attempt to score against one's opponents

Words related to DEFENDS

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How to use DEFENDS in a sentence

• Englishmen blush at the memory of Jeffreys, but no Englishman ever defends that fiendish butcher of women.
• When she has young, therefore, it would seem that the courage of the male is transferred to the female, for she defends them with the most resolute bravery.
• Defends in anger the simplicity of his inventive contrivances.
• Campbell, if I understand his argument, defends the foregoing expressions against the objections of Dr.
• She brings three charges against him, and defends each with ample quotation, wit, sarcasm, argument and eloquence.
• Celestial flame in no case bursts out against another, but only defends itself, and defends itself against an evil person, as when he rushes into the fire and is burnt, 365.
• Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand, The sea is ours, and that defends the land.
• That is, he defends his Church as he would defend Christianity generally, taking it as a great practical system must be in this world, working with human nature as it is.
• Cicero ingeniously defends this scepticism, which was, in fact, the bent of his own mind.
• Oh give me but my Arab steed, My prince defends his right, And I will to the battle speed, To guard him in the fight.
• Yet the woman he defends will endure pain without a murmur, which would make the man groan for an hour.
• Yet he himself shelters and defends and battles for this intruder on his peace, this source of endless pain and brain-rending sorrow.
• She was furious as a tigress that defends her young.
• The accuser is heard, and the deceased defends himself before forty two divine judges who preside over the forty two sins from which he must be cleared.
• Basky in which he defends the principles of the Left Wing and attacks the New York State Committee for the above resolutions.
• Even my good Mary, here, is so warped by her reverence for the Bible, that she defends the institution of slavery, which I abhor with all my heart.
• Douglass, sincere in the opinions he has espoused, defends them with a fervor and eloquence that finds scarcely a competitor.
• It makes no nest, but lays two eggs on a jutting ledge of some precipice, and fiercely defends them.
• But the candid mind of the scholar will admit and seek to remedy all wrongs with the same zeal with which it defends all rights.
• There is, we are told, a determined though unseen bravery, which defends itself, foot to foot, in the darkness, against the fatal invasion of necessity and of baseness.
• Minucius Felix, a lawyer of Rome, defends the secrecy of Christianity, 547-m.
• He travels, he labours, he defends the oppressed, comforts the afflicted, helps the needy, and keeps the close of the abbey.
• I say, therefore, that the arms with which a prince defends his state are either his own, or they are mercenaries, auxiliaries, or mixed.
• As for Milo of Crotona, he defends himself against the lion, which is in the act of devouring him.
• In several passages, he defends his use of words taken from the Italian and Spanish languages.
• Cox, whose daughter married the son of Pope and who therefore came to know him well in his later years, defends him vigorously.
• These may have occupied the position of the present dry moat that defends the castle on two of its three sides.
• Acts Chapter 24 Paul defends his innocence before Felix the governor.

Similar words containing FEND without suffix s and without prefix de

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