Definitions For Defending
adjective
- Attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring
verb
- To fight in order to keep (someone or something) safe : to not allow a person or thing to hurt, damage, or destroy (someone or something)
- To fight or work hard in order to keep (something, such as a right, interest, cause, etc.) from being taken away
- To speak or write in support of (someone or something that is being challenged or criticized)
Is Defending a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
15
Words with Friends
18
The word Defending is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Defending in a Sentence
- The company must defend its own interests.
- We believed it was a cause worth defending.
- She defended her friend's behavior.