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

English words for 'defend against attack or criticism'

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