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Word: defend
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Verb:
- sports To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
- sports To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- intransitive|obsolete To prohibit, forbid.
- legal To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
- obsolete To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
- obsolete To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
- transitive To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- transitive To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
Source: Wiktionary
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