DEFENDING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does defending mean? 

• DEFENDING (adjective)
  The adjective DEFENDING has 1 sense:

1. attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring

  Familiarity information: DEFENDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFENDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring

Similar:

defensive (intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack)

Domain category:

game (a contest with rules to determine a winner)

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

 Context examples 

It also supplies the tissues with nutrients, removes waste products, and contains various components of the immune system defending the body against infection.

(Blood, NCI Thesaurus)

The process of defending or pleading the cause of another individual or group (from PSY94)

(Advocacy, NCI Thesaurus)

I have seen Frenchmen fight both in open field, in the intaking and the defending of towns or castlewicks, in escalados, camisades, night forays, bushments, sallies, outfalls, and knightly spear-runnings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could now see the man-animals driving back the dogs with clubs and stones, defending him, saving him from the savage teeth of his kind that somehow was not his kind.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“I was upstairs, mama, moving my things,” said Susan, in a fearless, self-defending tone, which startled Fanny.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"Not a particle, but she's a dear," returned Sallie, defending her friend even while confessing her shortcomings.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Kosgei was the Chicago Marathon defending champion.

(Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record at Chicago Marathon, Wikinews)

You have more than half the solar system in Capricorn defending you, so you have a lot going for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and submitted to the defending counsel.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no defending it.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)