act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies |
act of removing from office or employment | the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury |
the act of uniform movement | a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him |
to move something from its natural environment | protection from harm |
an event in which something is displaced without rotation | a structure used to defend against attack |
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one | the justification for some act or belief |
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound | the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions |
| the defendant and his legal advisors collectively |
| (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring |
| an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack |
| (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires |