defending
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- v argue or speak in defense of
- v be on the defensive; act against an attack
- v protect against a challenge or attack
- v fight against or resist strongly
- v protect or fight for as a champion
- v be the defense counsel for someone in a trial
- v state or assert
- s attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring
- STEVE COHEN, a Tennessee representative, defending his voting record against attacks by his opponent, Memphis' former mayor, who criticized the white incumbent for being unable to .
- More interesting to political observers than the self-defending outburst was Liani-Papandreou's reply to a question about her political future: "I will decide when the time comes.
- Even top predators like big jungle cats may spend as much time defending a kill as eating it, one of the reasons some of them will carry a carcass up into a tree before tucking in.