Defenses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFENSES in dictionary:

VERB (USED WITH OBJECT) [DE·FENSED, DE·FENS·ING.]:
• to defend against (an opponent, play, or tactic).
VERB:
• DEFENSE, to guard against a specific attack, also DEFENCE
NOUN:
• resistance against attack; protection: Two more regiments are needed for the defense of the city.
• something that defends, as a fortification, physical or mental quality, or medication: This fort was once the main defense of the island.
• a speech, argument, etc., in vindication: She delivered a defense of free enterprise.
• defense mechanism.
• the Department of Defense.
• the defending of a cause or the like by speech, argument, etc.: He spoke in defense of the nation's foreign policy.

Words related to DEFENSES

defense11 defensed13 defensing14

Words that contain DEFENSES

biodefenses17 nondefenses15

How to use DEFENSES in a sentence

• But even here there was no rest for us, for it was necessary to strengthen our defenses against the attack which could not be long deferred.
• The German main defenses against Russia extended in a general line from Koenigsberg to Danzig, thence south along the Vistula to the great fortress of Thorn.
• He says he found the men in good spirits and that they had been active in making temporary but most effectual defenses of logs, etc.
• Our military establishment in time of peace is adapted to maintain exterior defenses and to preserve order among the aboriginal tribes within the limits of the Union.
• The transports returned, therefore, before the defenses were complete, and contrived to get into the harbor.
• The next movement was a turning one, taking the position of Theriso on the flank, by Lakus, a strong position, but at which no defenses had been prepared.
• A treatise on the law of defenses in actions on commercial paper.
• This model, which is much used in England by fishermen and hunters, has for several years past been employed in the French navy, in connection with movable defenses.
• This noble resistance enabled the troops in the city greatly to multiply and increase their defenses.
• Their defenses are inadequate and their navy likewise.
• They knew her corruption, her crumbling defenses, her antique arms and methods, the absence of all provision for the needs of an army in the field.
• What the defenses of the channel were, no one knew.
• This gives us the opportunity to strengthen our psychic defenses and to better serve humanity.
• Now, however, having bought experience dearly, their defenses are such that they can defy the German artillery fire.
• Desmond himself meanwhile, with the remaining twelve, set to work to strengthen the defenses.
• She was conscious of a withdrawal, a closing of doors, a shutting down of her defenses in face of aggression and menace.
• There were but eighteen thousand behind the defenses of Petersburg on the dark night when Grant massed fifty thousand picked men before the doomed fort.
• All the Alpine passes of the Tyrol are fortified, but neither Vienna nor Budapest has any defenses.
• The natural formation of the land greatly helped the Germans in arranging their defenses, and the fighting was very fierce.
• The deputies accurately observed the warlike preparations and the defenses of the frontier.
• At the same time, General Prentiss pushed forward the defenses of Cairo, in readiness for any attack by the Rebel gun-boats.
• It was not known what defenses the Rebels might have constructed along this distance of four hundred miles.
• Defenses were thrown up around the former city, to assist in holding it in case of attack, but they were never brought into use.
• Defenses had to be erected without tools, and so great was the anxiety that throughout the months of September and October a nightly watch of twenty men was kept.
• So he settled the matter at once by ordering that McClellan should have command within the defenses of Washington.
• The defenses were designed to prevent interference or intrusion into the life of the Romans.
• Expansion inside Europe, with its tight frontier defenses, meant war with aggressive rivals.
• With a view to this, the condition of our military defenses will become a matter of anxious solicitude.
• It was in reality a part of the defenses of Richmond.
• To protect his capital, Peter immediately commenced his defenses at Cronstadt, about thirty miles down the bay.
• What is this terrible thing that threatens them, that they fear and court at the hands of men? They act it in their advances and sudden defenses.

Similar words containing FENSE without suffix s and without prefix de

defense11 offense13 defensed13 offenses14 defenseman16 defensemen16 nondefense14 biodefense16 defenseless15 offenseless17 biodefenses17 nondefenses15 defenselessly20 defenselessness19 defenselessnesses21

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