go into one's shell
defensively
defensive
defensive attitude
ward
defensibly
fencible
defendable
defensible
defensibility
fence
take up the cudgels
defend
wear
coverage
defensiveness
defensibleness
shield
stand
defendably
backfoot
circle the wagons
standoff
barbedly
repulsion
stick up
protectory
stand up
stick up for
overdefensive
tenable
white knight
parry
set up one's bristles
bellicose
on the defensive
en garde
fight back
defence
assertively
bulwark
contest
guardingly
counterstrike
artifice
combativeness
watch over
protectorly
protectively
overdefended
special defense
self-defense
ride
confront
stand in the gap
fortification
get on someone's grill
bodyguard
watch
fighting words
patrollable
self-protection
counterattack
self-defence
stank
assertorily
froggy
undershift
pull in one's horns
foreguard
protective
come to bat
fend off
face down
stand guard
take the game to
gladiator
ill
disarming
protected
counterdefensive
offensive
tactical
face
much to be said
defense
guard

English words for 'To act defensively.'

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