defend

Etymology
From, from , (Modern 🇨🇬), from , from , ultimately from. Displaced native.

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 instance 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.
 * 1)  To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
 * 2)  To prohibit, forbid.
 * 1)  To prohibit, forbid.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:defend

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: حامى
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: apãr
 * Azerbaijani:, müdafiə etmək
 * Belarusian: абараня́ць, абарані́ць
 * Bengali: রক্ষা করা
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chickasaw: ittafama
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: defendar
 * Danish: forsvare
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: defendi, protekti
 * Estonian: kaitsma
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: დაცვა, მოგერიება
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Haitian Creole: defann
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: रक्षा करना
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: cosain
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ປ້ອງກັນ
 * Latin:, , tutor, tueor, , defensō
 * Latvian: aizstāvēt
 * Lithuanian: ginti
 * Macedonian: брани, заштитува
 * Malay: membela
 * Maori: wawao, whakangungu, whakawawao
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: d'fendre
 * Norwegian:, verne, beskytte
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: бранити
 * Old English: bewerian
 * Old Norse: verja
 * Pashto: مدافعه کول
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: amachay
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бранити
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: brániť
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: коры-
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: муҳофизат кардан, дифоъ кардан
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: goramak, penalamak
 * Ukrainian: обороня́ти, оборони́ти, захища́ти, захисти́ти
 * Urdu: دفاع کرنا
 * Uyghur: مۇداپىئە قىلماق
 * Uzbek: himoya qilmoq, mudofaa qilmoq
 * Vietnamese:, , chống giữ
 * Welsh: