defend
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～ protect or fight for as a champion
defend
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～ fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!"
defend
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～ protect against a challenge or attack; "Hold that position behind the trees!"; "Hold the bridge against the enemy's attacks"
defend
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～ be on the defensive; act against an attack
defend
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～ be the defense counsel for someone in a trial; "Ms. Smith will represent the defendant"
defend
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～ argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike"
defenestrate
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～ throw through or out of the window; "The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President"
defer
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～ yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure"
defer
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～ hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"
defervesce
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～ experience an abatement of a fever
defibrillate
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～ stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks; "The patient's heart had to be defibrillated to save his life"
defibrinate
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～ remove fibrin from (blood)
defile
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～ make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
defile
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～ place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
defile
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～ spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
define
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～ determine the essential quality of
define
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～ give a definition for the meaning of a word; "Define `sadness'"
define
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～ show the form or outline of; "The tree was clearly defined by the light"; "The camera could define the smallest object"
define
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～ decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
define
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～ determine the nature of; "What defines a good wine?"