Defence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFENCE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make a defence, also DEFENSE
• See Defense.
• provide with defence
NOUN:
• protection
• 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
• resistance against attack
• The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.
• That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection.
• Protecting plea; vindication; justification.
• The defendant\'s answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff\'s or prosecutor\'s case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff\'s action.
• Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc.
• Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
• the justification for some act or belief
• a structure used to defend against attack
• a defendant\'s answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
• (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
• protection from harm
• 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:
• to defense

Words related to DEFENCE

defenced15 defenceless17 defencelessly22 defencelessness21 defences14 defencing16 defense11 propugnation17

Words that contain DEFENCE

defenced15 defences14 defenceman18 defencemen18 nondefence16 defenceless17 defencelessly22 defencelessness21

How to use DEFENCE in a sentence

• The case for the defence depended to a great extent on the plan of Riversbrook which Hill candidly admitted he had drawn.
• To Germans our defence of public law may seem part of the moral hypocrisy of which in their view we are full.
• He had toiled hard for the conversion of Nick, in gratitude for the manner in which he had fought in defence of the females.
• The prisoner Smith made no defence, and held her head down during the examination.
• James looked up angry and astonished, and immediately threw himself into a position of defence.
• To hear the story of that heroic defence from the lips of one who was concerned so intimately with it is one of my greatest desires.
• The tale of that heroic defence has been so told that it need assuredly never, while the world lasts, be told again.
• Carondelet wrote to the Home Government that the Indians formed the best defence on which Louisiana could rely.
• Before the army was ready the Federal Government was obliged to take other measures for the defence of the border.
• It must, however, be urged in his defence that the structure had already, in 1447, been pronounced insecure.
• The city is surrounded by thirty two towers, one to three miles distant from it, and so placed that they form a complete line of communication and defence.
• But the French and English, instead of meeting the advance with a defence, themselves attacked.
• Samuel Johnson, who suffered much persecution for his defence of the right of private judgment.
• Go and tell the dissatisfied miners that we will never plot against them, although it is probable that we shall not take up arms in their defence.
• Once English and French stood linked here in a common heroic defence.
• Lamb had undertaken to write a letter in defence of Burns, how different would it have been from this of Mr.
• For if either necessity, his own defence or misfortune draweth him to that deed, a pardon serveth, which either the law granteth of course, or the King of pity.
• In this defence of Jewish literature he was supported by the Duke of Bavaria, who appointed him professor at Ingoldstadt, but was strongly condemned by the Dominicans of Cologne.
• She is allowing no moral defence to remain for her future.
• All these ceremonies being performed, he claimed the consecrated ground as a defence from all malignant spirits, that they might not have power over his soul or body.
• The Duke of York concentrated his forces in the neighbourhood of Breda for the defence of Holland, while General Clairfait retired behind the Meuse.
• And as he had heretofore ventured his life in defence of the nation, he would still go as far as any man in maintaining all its just rights and liberties.
• That this was in no state of defence the Indians very well knew.
• An arched window at the back of this chamber gave directly upon a precipice, which formed a defence for one side of the castle.
• Yet even in defence of such an implacable disposition towards the civilised intruder, much may be urged.
• In defence the balance of endurance inclined neither to one side nor the other.
• Nicias was guilty of the blunder of allowing Gylippus to land at Himera, to aid the defence, at the moment when it was on the point of capitulation.
• Tardy redress of the worst Irish abuses is no defence of the system which created them and sustained them with such ruinous results.
• Grotius having asked leave to write his defence, they allowed him for that purpose only five hours, and one sheet of paper.
• While paying a pilgrimage to the grave of a dear boy who died in defence of Jackson in 1866, I saw and paused at the modest stone which marks the grave of Governor Poindexter.
• Probably without, because she had freely used its staff as a weapon of defence, and her former skill in fencing stood her in good stead.

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