defend

Signification

  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.

Fréquence

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Prononcé comme (IPA)
/dɪˈfɛnd/
Étymologie

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.

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