stand up
stick up
circle the wagons
defend
on the defensive
defensive
defensive attitude
stick up for
wear
fence
shield
ward
defensibility
defendably
defensibleness
reproach
upbraid
protected
vindicate
defence
countermilitary
anticritical
take up for
hold
engaged
fend off
guard
bulwark
defendable
antiprotection
defense
repulsion
anticonfrontational
standoff
offensive
go into one's shell
defense force
go at
defence force
savaging
tenable
flak
antiprotectionism
protectionist
have one's back up
fencible
self-defense
brickbat
defensible
defensiveness
championship
coverage
handbagging
defendee
brickbatting
take the offensive
counterextremist
much to be said
banging
battering
fortification
offence
antireprisal
offense
taste blood
day in court
hot water
rear gunner
offensivity
counter-argumentative
animadversion
censure
counteroppositional
metacriticism
bitching
pitch
apologia
tail gunner
stand
anticritic
calling into question
cover
protectionistic
fight back
demand for explanation
eat someone alive
beward

English words for 'defend against attack or criticism'

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