Defend

Definition

defend /dÇ'fend/ v ၁။ ~ sb/sth (from/against sb/sth) (က) ေဘးအႏၲရာယ္မွ ကာကြယ္ေပးသည္။ ခုခံ ကာကြယ္သည္။ When the dog attacked me, I defended myself with a stick. ❍ defend sb from attack/an attacker/injury ❍ defend one's country against enemies. (ခ) ခုခံကာကြယ္ ေျပာဆိုေရးသားသည္။ defend one's actions/cause/ideas/leader ❍ defend a lawsuit ❍ You'll need stronger evidence to defend your claim to the inheritance. ❍ He's fighting to defend his seat in Congress. ❍ The newspaper defended her against the accusations. ၂။ ( sport ) (က) ခံစစ္ကစားသည္။ ကာကြယ္သည္။ Some players are better at defending ❍ They had three players defending the goal. (ခ) (မိမိ ေအာင္သရဖူကို) ကာကြယ္သည္။ the defending champion ❍ She's running to defend her 400 metres title. ❏ defender n ခုခံကာကြယ္သူ။ an outspoken defender of human rights ❍ He had to beat several defenders to score.

Examples

1. Thousands of young men came forward
2. willing to defend their country.
3. [defend someone/something from/against something] : Steps are being taken to defend the city against attack.
4. [defend yourself] : You have a right to defend yourself if you are being attacked.
5. Hundreds of miners are fighting to defend their jobs.
6. We will defend their right to free speech.
7. Mr Rose defended the committee’s decision to publish the report early.
8. [strongly/strenuously/vigorously defend] : He vigorously defended his party’s record on human rights.
9. [defend yourself against something] : They must be given the opportunity to defend themselves against these allegations.
10. The opposition defended brilliantly in the second half.
11. She will be defending her Wimbledon title later this month.
12. [successfully defend] : Can Baxter successfully defend his heavyweight championship?