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[ dih-fens ] / dɪˈfɛns /
noun, verb (used with object), de·fenced, de·fenc·ing.British. variant of defense. OTHER WORDS FROM defencede·fence·a·ble, adjectivede·fence·less, adjectivede·fence·less·ly, adverbde·fence·less·ness, noun pre·de·fence, noun Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for defenceThe “find and operate” missions that followed were directed at the most vulnerable and defenceless individuals in the country. Hold Onto Your Penis|David Frum, Justin Green|November 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST The aid which Pyrrhus brought did little good to the Tarentines, and his final departure in 274 left them defenceless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 3|Various She was in no condition to be left alone, this delicate and fragile child, defenceless and beset. The Destroying Angel|Louis Joseph Vance On the third day after the tumult, Genseric boldly advanced from the port of Ostia to the gates of the defenceless city. The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|Edward Gibbon
The great object in a sea-fight was to charge an opponent amidships, or on the stern, or on some defenceless part. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine--Volume 62, No. 386, December, 1847|Various Orange loyalty was then licensed and let loose upon the defenceless Roman Catholic population in Ulster. The Land-War In Ireland (1870)|James Godkin
British Dictionary definitions for defence
nounresistance against danger, attack, or harm; protection a person or thing that provides such resistance a plea, essay, speech, etc, in support of something; vindication; justification - a country's military measures or resources
- (as modifier)defence spending
law a defendant's denial of the truth of the allegations or charge against him law the defendant and his legal advisers collectivelyCompare prosecution sport - the action of protecting oneself, one's goal, or one's allotted part of the playing area against an opponent's attacks
- the method of doing this
- the defence the players in a team whose function is to do this
American football (usually preceded by the) - the team that does not have possession of the ball
- the members of a team that play in such circumstances
psychoanal See defence mechanism (plural) fortifications Derived forms of defencedefenceless or US defenseless, adjectivedefencelessly or US defenselessly, adverbdefencelessness or US defenselessness, nounWord Origin for defenceC13: from Old French, from Late Latin dēfensum, past participle of dēfendere to defend Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |