DEFEND vs OPPOSE: VERB
- Fight against or resist strongly
- Protect or fight for as a champion
- State or assert
- Protect against a challenge or attack
- Be on the defensive; act against an attack
- Be the defense counsel for someone in a trial
- To call a raise from the big blind.
- To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
- Argue or speak in defense of
- To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
- To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
- To prohibit, forbid.
- To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
- To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
- To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- Contrast with equal weight or force
- Fight against or resist strongly
- Set into opposition or rivalry
- Act against or in opposition to
- Be resistant to
- Be against; express opposition to
- Oppose with equal weight or force
- To attempt to stop the progression of.
- To object to.
- To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
DEFEND vs OPPOSE: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To compete against a challenger in an attempt to retain (a championship).
- To be responsible for guarding (an opposing player).
- To attempt to prevent the opposition from scoring while playing in or near (a goal or area of a field, for example).
- To engage in or be prepared to engage in battle to prevent (a population or area, for example) from being captured or occupied by an enemy.
- To make or keep safe from danger, attack, or harm.
- To represent (a defendant) in a civil or criminal action.
- To attempt to disprove or invalidate (the claim made by a lawsuit or prosecution).
- To make a defense.
- To play defense.
- To support or maintain, as by argument or action; justify.
- To be or act in contention or conflict with.
- To be hostile or resistant to; try to prevent.
- To set as an opposite in position.
- To present in counterbalance or contrast.
- To be or act in opposition.
- To make objection or opposition in controversy.
- To act adversely or in opposition; -- with against or to.
- To be set opposite.
DEFEND vs OPPOSE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To prohibit; to forbid.
- To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; ; -- sometimes followed by from or against.
- To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit.
- To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
- To compete with; to strive against.
- To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically.
- To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
- To resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand
DEFEND vs OPPOSE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To drive off or away; thrust back; fend or ward off; repel.
- To forbid; prohibit; forefend.
- To ward off attack from; guard against assault or injury; shield: as, to defend a fortress.
- To vindicate; uphold; maintain by force, argument, or evidence: as, to defend one's rights and privileges; to defend a cause or claim at law.
- Synonyms Protect, Shelter, etc. (see keep), guard, shield. Maintain, Vindicate, etc. See assert.
- In law, to make opposition; enter or make defense: as, the party comes into court, defends, and says.
- Be on the defensive
- Act against an attack
- To set or place over against or directly opposite; confront or cause to confront, either literally or by way of comparison, contrast, etc.
- To expose; show; display.
- To propose; offer.
- To place or interpose as an obstacle; place in opposition, as for the purpose of contradicting, countervailing, offsetting, or withstanding and defeating something.
- To speak or act against; confront with adverse arguments or efforts; contradict; withstand; endeavor to frustrate or thwart.
- To hinder; resist effectually; prevent; defeat: as, the army was not able to oppose the enemy's progress.
- Synonyms Oppose, Resist, Withstand, combat, strive against, contravene. The first three words are all rather general, but oppose is not quite so strong as the others, as suggesting less of physical action; they all primarily convey the idea of receiving rather than making the attack, but oppose is least restricted to that meaning. See frustrate.
- Be against
- Express opposition to
- To stand over against another or one another; be opposite.
- To interpose effort or objection; act or speak in opposition; be adverse or act adverse ly: sometimes with to or against.
- (idiom) (as opposed to) In contrast to.
DEFEND vs OPPOSE: RELATED WORDS
- Vindicate, Safeguard, Protect, Assert, Fend for, Fight down, Fight back, Support, Guard, Champion, Hold, Represent, Oppose, Maintain, Fight
- Disapprove, Disagree, Denounce, Objecting, Reject, Fight down, Match, Pit, Fight back, Counterbalance, React, Controvert, Fight, Defend, Contradict
DEFEND vs OPPOSE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Repel, Fend, Uphold, Vindicate, Safeguard, Protect, Assert, Fight back, Support, Guard, Champion, Hold, Represent, Oppose, Fight
- Objection, Refuse, Opposition, Resist, Deny, Disapprove, Denounce, Objecting, Reject, Match, Pit, Fight back, Controvert, Fight, Contradict
DEFEND vs OPPOSE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Samba to expound upon and defend his faith.
- You are able to defend yourself in court.
- Be prepared to explain and defend the process.
- Richard Caswell with orders to defend the colony.
- All democratic nations need to constantly defend it.
- President to defend the prerogatives of his office to defend constitutionally grounded principles of executive branch privileges or immunities is an impeachable offense.
- He would defend his original viewpoint and we would defend our disposition and associated rationale.
- We should reply that any nation must defend itself against a step which would make it impossible to defend itself.
- Others will not defend you unless you defend yourself.
- Conservatives defend property; but they defend it badly.
- All in all, do you strongly favor, favor, oppose, or strongly oppose.
- Biden because you oppose Trump, vote for me because you oppose Trump.
- Do you strongly support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose these accommodations?
- Smetana asked where are the citizens who oppose annexation; they were here some time ago to oppose annexation; none are here tonight.
- All in all, do you strongly favor, favor, oppose, or strongly oppose the death penalty for persons convicted of murder?
- For those and other reasons, I strongly oppose this amendment, and would ask my colleagues to oppose.
- Many will oppose you and even use verses to oppose you.
- Your original question is, if I oppose free school lunches, then somehow I oppose children.
- He stands to oppose, the Speaker reminds him, he can sit and oppose too.
- In most cases, the proper course for public lands conservationists is to oppose, oppose, and oppose to cause delay, delay, and delay.
DEFEND vs OPPOSE: QUESTIONS
- Who will defend the Lucha Underground Championship?
- How do humans defend against intracellular parasites?
- Does minimalism defend itself against anti-realism?
- Why did Melanchthon defend the Augsburg Confession?
- How do honeybees defend themselves against Hornets?
- How do psychodynamic therapists defend against emotions?
- How do silkworms defend themselves against pathogens?
- How do pine processionary caterpillars defend themselves?
- How did Argentinosaurus defend itself from predators?
- Should I purchase a duty to defend or non-duty to defend/reimbursement policy form?
- Why did Winston Churchill oppose Neville Chamberlain?
- Why did Queen Liliuokalani oppose the Constitution?
- Should anyone who favors privacy oppose transparency?
- Why do some conservatives oppose capital punishment?
- Do Christians support or oppose capital punishment?
- Why did Madison oppose ratification of Constitution?
- Did John Hickenlooper oppose civil rights legislation?
- Should Chinese Americans oppose critical race theory?
- Why embrace Americanism and oppose multiculturalism?
- Is it necessary to oppose democracy to oppose the rule of democracy?