defense
/dɪˈfɛns/ verb C2- To employ defensive tactics (so as to block).
He/she/it defenses · Past defensed · Past participle defensed · -ing form defensing
Verb forms
- Base form
- defense
- He/she/it
- defenses
- Past
- defensed
- Past participle
- defensed
- -ing form
- defensing
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A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother!
A Carpenter, with equal enthusiasm, proposed timber as a preferable method of defense.
So had the Quarter Sessions, at which he was acquitted as having acted in self-defense.
Then Kaa opened his mouth for the first time and spoke one long hissing word, and the far-away monkeys, hurrying to the defense of the Cold Lairs, stayed where they were, cowering, till the loaded branches bent and crackled under them.
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