defend
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justify or support a position or conclusion with evidence and arguments
polysemous
Attested in
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Classifications
Cognitive
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- championfightguardmaintainrepresentsupport
- pasttense
- defended
- presentparticiple
- defending
- thirdpersonsingular
- defends
- pastparticiple
- defended
Framework definitions
- §1
- argue or speak in defense of
- §2
- state or assert
- §3
- fight against or resist strongly
- §4
- be on the defensive
- §5
- protect against a challenge or attack
- §6
- protect or fight for as a champion
- §7
- be the defense counsel for someone in a trial
- §1 · legacy_primary
- justify or support a position or conclusion with evidence and argumentsDR-088 backfill from the verb definition column
Outgoing relationships
- ambiguityFlag
truexsd:boolean
- verbLevel
createlexicon:CognitiveLevel
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.