defend

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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. (slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
7. (obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
8. (obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
9. (obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.

Konzepte

verteidigen

beschützen

schützen

abwehren

behaupten

in Schutz nehmen

hindern

verhindern

retten

sich wehren

schützen vor

unterstützen

abhalten von

aufhalten

den Weg versperren

festhalten

halten

verbieten

sichern

Verteidigung

verfechten

wehren

Widerstand

widerstehen

behüten

beschirmen

abwenden

gaumen

abhalten

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/dɪˈfɛnd/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From Middle English defenden, from Old French defendre, deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-. Displaced native Old English bewerian.