Significado (Inglês)
- (transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
- (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- (transitive) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
- To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- Mostly in tests. The action of not putting force into hitting a shot, but to conserve energy and wear down bowlers so they can attack later.
- 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.
- (slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
- (obsolete, transitive) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
- (obsolete, transitive) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
- (intransitive, obsolete, transitive) To prohibit, forbid.
Conceitos
Sinônimos
fight down
Traduções
Freqüência
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/dɪˈfɛnd/
Etimologia (Inglês)
In summary
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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