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— English words —

• defend v. (Transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
• defend v. (Transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
• defend v. (Transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
• defend v. (Sports) To focus one’s energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing…
• defend v. (Sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did…
• defend v. (Poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
• defend v. (Transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
• defend v. (Transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
• defend v. (Transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Ladin
  • defënd v. Defends, protects (3rd person singular, present tense).

— English words, defined in German —

• defend V. Verteidigen: Angriff abwehren.
• defend V. Unterstützen.
• defend V. Recht: vor Gericht verteidigen.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• defend w. Overgankelijk verdedigen.

— English word, defined in French —

• defend v. Défendre.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• defend v. Defender.

— In French —

• Defend n.fam. Nom de famille.
• défend v. Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de défendre.

72 English words from 10 English definitions

accused against and as␣one as␣opposed␣to attack attacker attacks attempt big big␣blind blind call competition defence Defends did doing energies favour fight focus focusing forbid from guard in␣favour in␣favour␣of intransitive keep law legal make obsolete off one opponents opposed person Poker present present␣tense prevent preventing prohibit protect protects raise reach repel represent retain same scoring singular slang something Sports stage support talents talk tense the the␣same title Transitive vindicate ward ward␣off words writing

3 English words from 8 foreign definitions

Defender Nom vor

17 foreign words from 8 foreign definitions

abwehren Angriff défendre famille Gericht indicatif Nom␣de␣famille Overgankelijk personne présent Recht singulier Troisième Troisième␣personne Unterstützen verdedigen verteidigen

28 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

defends defended defendee defender defendin' defendor defendant defendees defenders defendest defendeth defending defendors defendour defendable defendably defendants defendaunt defendedst defendours defendress defendaunts defenderless defendership defendresses defendability defending␣zone defending␣zones

28 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

redefends misdefends redefended undefended codefendant co-defendant ear␣defender misdefended redefending codefendants co-defendants ear␣defenders misdefending nondefendant overdefended prodefendant se␣defendendo undefendable undefendably underdefends antidefendant nondefendants underdefended multidefendant public␣defender underdefending public␣defenders God␣Defend␣New␣Zealand

3 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

redefend misdefend underdefend

11 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

def DEF Def. EFE Efé end End -end end- fen fend

10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

DNE EFE Efé e-fed fed Fed FED Fed. f***ed nef

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

fended

3 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

defends defined fiended

3 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

DNFed DNF'ed ended

3 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

debend defund depend

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