What does defending mean?

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de·fend·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. defendingadjective

    attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring

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  1. defending

    Defending refers to the act of protecting or safeguarding something from harm, danger, or attack. This could relate to physical entities such as people or property, or intangible aspects such as beliefs, ideas, or rights. Defending can also refer to justifying or advocating for a particular position or argument in a debate or discussion.

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  1. Defending

    of Defend

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of defending in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of defending in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of defending in a Sentence

  1. H.L. Mencken:

    The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

  2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

    In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it.

  3. Josh Hawley:

    At lunch yesterday… I just made the point that if we're going to ask independent working class people to vote for us… we've actually got to do something that is good for them, we ought to be the party that is for that, and we shouldn't be the party that is defending the suits and defending the multinational corporations and defending the C-suite.

  4. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191:

    The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

  5. Erma Bombeck:

    ... it's simply wrong to always order kids to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.

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    relating to a technique that does not involve puncturing the skin or entering a body cavity
    • A. tight
    • B. greedy
    • C. occasional
    • D. noninvasive

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