Definitions For Defense

noun

  • The act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
  • Protection from harm
  • (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
  • A defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
  • A structure used to defend against attack
  • The justification for some act or belief
  • The speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
  • An organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
  • The defendant and his legal advisors collectively
  • (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
  • The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947
  • (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
  • The act of defending someone or something from attack
  • Something that is used to protect yourself, your country, etc.
  • The act of speaking or writing in support of someone or something that is being attacked or criticized

Is Defenses 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
12
Words with Friends
13

The word Defense is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Defense in a Sentence

  • They put up a good defense, but the city ultimately fell to the invaders.
  • They mounted a good defense.
  • The city's defenses were not strong enough to keep out the invaders.

Synonyms for Defense

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