Defense

Noun
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 * 1) The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
 * 2) Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
 * 3)  A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
 * 4)  The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
 * 5) An argument in support or justification of something.
 * 6) Government policy or structure related to the military.
 * Department of Defense

Synonyms for Defense
vindication, plea, excuse, safeguard, apology, bulwark, fortress, guard, protection, shelter, shield, justification.

Antonyms for Defense
offense, desertion, capitulation, surrender, betrayal, abandonment, flight, yielding

Derived terms

 * antidefense
 * ecodefense
 * Nuremberg defense
 * defensive
 * defensiveness

Thesaurus
aegis, answer, apologetic, apologetics, apologia, apology, arch dam, argument, argumentation, armament, armor, arms, backfire, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, bicker, bickering, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, casuistry, cofferdam, comeback, confutation, contention, contraremonstrance, controversy, counteraccusation, counterattack, counterblast, counterblow, countercharge, counterclaim, counterfire, counterinsurgency, countermeasure, counterreply, counterrevolution, counterstatement, counterstep, counterstroke, cover, dam, demurrer, denial, dike, disputation, dispute, ditch, earthwork, embankment, exception, exculpation, excuse, explanation, eye, fastness, fence, flyting, fort, fortress, gate, gravity dam, groin, guard, hassle, hubbub, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, justification, leaping weir, lee, levee, litigation, logjam, logomachy, milldam, moat, mole, mound, munitions, objection, paper war, parapet, passage of arms, plea, pleading, pleadings, polemic, polemics, portcullis, preservation, protection, protective custody, rampart, rationalization, rebuttal, rebutter, refuge, refutation, rejoinder, replication, reply, response, retort, return, rhubarb, riposte, roadblock, rock-fill dam, safeguard, safekeeping, safety, seawall, security, set-to, shade, shadow, shelter, shield, shutter dam, special demurrer, special pleading, statement of defense, stone wall, stronghold, surrebuttal, surrebutter, surrejoinder, verbal engagement, wall, war of words, ward, watchful eye, weaponry, weapons, weir, wicket dam, work, wrangling

Alternative forms

 * defence (Commonwealth)

Etymology

 * From the French défense, itself from Latin defensa, "protection".

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese: 防御 (fángyù)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forsvar
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: defendo
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: puolustautuminen, puolustus
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (ámyna)
 * Hebrew: הגנה (hagana) (action of protecting someone); התגוננות (hitgonenut)  (action of protecting oneself)


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 防御, 防禦 (ぼうぎょ, bōgyo)
 * Korean: 방어 (bang-eo)
 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian: forsvar
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, оборона
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: отбрана, отбранителни съоръжени
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forsvar
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Greek: (ámyna)
 * Hebrew: הגנה (hagana)
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, оборона
 * Spanish:


 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: puolustus, puolustelu


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: