Defense is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFENSE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to guard against a specific attack, also DEFENCE
• To furnish with defenses; to fortify.
NOUN:
• the action of defending from or resisting attack
• an instance of defending a title or seat in a contest or election
• military measures or resources for protecting a country
• a means of protecting something from attack
• fortifications or barriers against attack
• the case presented by or on behalf of the party accused of a crime or being sued in a civil lawsuit
• the counsel for the defendant in a lawsuit
• the players in a team who defend the goal
• Alt. of Defence
• (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
• protection from harm
• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
• the justification for some act or belief
• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
• the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947
• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
• a structure used to defend against attack
• a defendant\'s answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
• the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
• (in sport) the action or role of defending one's goal or wicket against the opposition
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• same as defence

Words related to DEFENSE

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Words that contain DEFENSE

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How to use DEFENSE in a sentence

• CHAPTER XXVI A DESPERATE DEFENSE I had barely time to get back to my post at the front door when they were upon us.
• Did you ever try reading to them the defense which old Socrates makes, which Plato wrote down for us? I do not know whether Socrates ever said it, but it was worthy of him.
• Hence the subject of defense becomes intimately connected in all its parts in war and in peace, for the land and at sea.
• But, in my judgment, even this bay may be defended against any power with whom we may be involved in war as a third party in the defense of our neutral rights.
• Had the State not borrowed this money the militia, whose services have been recognized since by the nation, must have been disbanded and the State left without defense.
• Wagons in which they had brought their supplies were drawn up in a circle, and would form an inner line of defense.
• Submarine torpedo-boats are actual, practical working vessels to-day, and already they have to be considered in the naval plans for attack and defense.
• Shortly afterwards the first captured trench having been put into some shape for defense, the advance line of the Hotwaters retired.
• These treaties commit the United States to the defense of the treaty areas.
• The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defense and a wreath of joy around all.
• Beline being then in that countrie, prouiding for defense against his brother, vpon knowledge of the king of Denmarks arriuall, caused him to be staied.
• But he would have no defense for the deed, and the law would force him to desert Mary Bransford.
• Deception frequently forms for it the only available weapon of defense against the parents and teachers.
• He first came into prominence by his passionate defense of the painter Turner against the art critics, and his study of Turner led him to adopt art criticism as his life work.
• A standing garrison of only five thousand men was left in San Francisco, and these at once occupied the coast-batteries and prepared them for defense.
• It was really a tragic conflict, for it was, Claude believed, the last stand made by an artist in defense of his art.
• The failure of the witness for the defense had proved the case of the prosecution.
• James Cole, High Sheriff, said if any of the patrols came on his plantation, he would lose his life in defense of his people.
• Each had received his baptism of fire during the heroic defense of the Belgian city of Liege, which had held out for days against the overwhelming horde of Teutons.
• It is like the old fashioned forts our forefathers used to make, for a defense against the Indians.
• Since their object is defense, they have no constructive program.
• A copy of the report which he has made, and also the defense of Dr.
• His maiden speech was in defense of the proposed amendment to the Constitution giving the choice of the President and Vice-President directly to the people.
• In peace our Navy performs the important duty of protecting our commerce, and in the event of war will be, as it has been, a most efficient means of defense.
• They proposed, therefore, that the taxes collected by the national government in New England should be handed over to the New England states to use for their defense.
• This was the kind of testimony that Henry had been so critical of when the defense witnesses were examined, calling it second hand information.

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