Толковый словарь английского языка - defend
Defend
defend
verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~re, from Latin ~ere, from de+ -fendere to strike; akin to Old English gūth battle, war, Greek theinein to strike Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to drive danger or attack away from , b. to maintain or support in the face of argument or hostile criticism , to prove (as a doctoral thesis) valid by answering questions in an oral exam, to attempt to prevent an opponent from scoring at , prevent , forbid , to act as attorney for, to deny or oppose the right of a plaintiff in regard to (a suit or a wrong charged) ; contest , to retain or seek to retain (as a title or position) against a challenge in a contest , intransitive verb to take action against attack or challenge, to play or be on defense , to play against the high bidder in a card game, ~able adjective Synonyms: see: ~ see: maintain
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v.tr. (also absol.) 1 (often foll. by against, from) resist an attack made on; protect (a person or thing) from harm or danger. 2 support or uphold by argument; speak or write in favour of. 3 conduct the case for (a defendant in a lawsuit). Derivatives defendable adj. defender n. Etymology: ME f. OF defendre f. L defendere: cf. OFFEND ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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