defends

Meaning of defends

verb
  1. To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
  2. To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
  3. To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
  4. To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
  5. 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.
  6. To call a raise from the big blind.
  7. To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
  8. To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
  9. To prohibit, forbid.

Information about defends

  • It is a verb.
  • The singular form of defends is: defend.
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Hyphenation of defends

de-fends

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • defends is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

defends antonyms

Meaning :

attack

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