Synonyms for defending
de·fend·ing

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1. defendingadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   offensive

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1. List of paraphrases for "defending":

   defend, defence, defends, upholding, advocating, defense, uphold, protecting, safeguarding, defender, championing

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1. Jony Luna:

   We are just defending democracy, we are not crazy, or irrational, as they call us. Our fathers fought when they couldn't even read and write, now it is our time to fight, to defend our people and the people of Bolivia.

2. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

   The fights are ongoing in many cities and districts of our country, but we know that we are defending our county, land, future of our children. Kyiv and the key towns around our capital are being controlled by our army.

3. Sergey Shestak/AFP/Getty:

   Under continuous fire from enemy artillery and aircraft, our soldiers at the front demonstrate superhuman resilience, courage and bravery, in particular, the units of the 93rd, 10th, 57th and 5th Brigades who are now defending our homeland in the east of the country.

4. Noam Chomsky:

   Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

5. Twin Peaks:

   We look forward to vigorously defending ourselves against these outrageous and baseless allegations, since this is an ongoing legal matter, it would be inappropriate to discuss further specifics.