Defencelessness

Definition

defence ( US defense ) /dÇ'fens/ n ၁။ [U] ~ (against sth) (က) ကာကြယ္ျခင္း။ ခုခံျခင္း။ fight in defence of one's country. ❍ come /leap/rush/spring to sb's defence ❍ weapons of offence and defence ❍ They planned the defence of the town. (ခ) [C] အကာအကြယ္။ ကာကြယ္ေရး အစီအရင္။ The high wall was built as a defence against intruders. ❍ The country's defences are weak. ❍ coastal defences ❍ Antibodies are the body's defence against infection. (ဂ) [U] (စစ္မႈ) ကာကြယ္ေရး။ The Ministry of Defence ❍ the defence budget ❍ civil defence. ၂။ (က) [C, U] ~ (against sth) ထုေခ်ခ်က္။ ေခ်ပခ်က္။ The lawyer produced a clever defence of her client. ❍ The book is a brilliant defence of their policies ❍ It must be said in her defence that she was only obeying instructions. (ခ) the defence [Gp] တရားခံေရွ႕ေန။ The defence argue/argues that the evidence is weak. ❍ counsel for the defence. Compare PROSECUTION ၂ ၃။ ( sport ) (က) [U] ခံစစ္ကစားျခင္း။ She plays in defence/ ( US ) on defense. (ခ) ( usu the defence) [Gp] ေနာက္တန္း၌ ကစားသူမ်ား။ He has been brought in to strengthen the defence. Compare ATTACK ၅, OFFENSE (ဂ) [C] စိန္ေခၚမႈကိုရင္ဆိုင္ျခင္း။ his third successful defence of the title. ❏ defenceless adj အကာအကြယ္မဲ့ေသာ။ ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့ေသာ။ a defenceless child/animal/city. defencelessly adv defencelessness n [U]

Examples

1. [come/rush to someone’s defence] : Two of his friends came to his defence.
2. Huge amounts of government money are spent on defence.
3. An attempt to reduce the defence budget
4. The President has promised to increase defence spending.
5. [defence cuts] : More defence cuts are expected next year.
6. Government forces have breached the rebels’ defences.
7. The city walls were built as a defence against invaders.
8. [strengthen someone’s/something’s defences] : He stressed the need to strengthen the nation’s defences.
9. [flood defences] : New flood defences are being built along the river bank.
10. [defence of] : The Minister responded with a strong defence of the government’s policy.
11. [speak/say something in someone’s defence] : Several people spoke in my defence.
12. [in defence of] : Monroe has been fierce in defence of the present system.
13. [come/spring/leap to someone’s defence] : Martin immediately sprang to her defence
14. saying she was innocent.
15. [conduct someone’s defence] : She decided to conduct her own defence.
16. [mount a defence] : He mounted a surprisingly effective defence.
17. The defence will begin giving evidence tomorrow.
18. New drugs that work by strengthening the body’s own defences
19. France has a very strong defence.
20. I usually play in defence.
21. Simpson is in New York this week for the defence of his title.
22. [someone’s defences are down] : He got me to sign the contract when my defences were down.