defense
defence
self-defense
battering
banging
defensive
exoneration
vindication
tenable
antiviolence
take up the cudgel for
antiviolent
affray
circle the wagons
fend off
give against
manhandle
offensive
apologia
savage
fence
self-defence
allision
self-protection
standoff
pattern up
watch
repulsion
counterland
force
menacing
violence
stand up
stick up
nonviolent
defend
on the defensive
betravail
aggress
bothering
go into
besetting
attack
assault
protection
onfall
offending
stick up for
set on
assail
obviation
have blood on one's hands
warring
white knight
attempt
defendably
restraint
damn by association
commandment
put the herd on someone
battery
fury
counter-offensive
stand in the gap
take up the cudgels
arming
recussion
injuria
fighting
let someone have it
threaten
persecution
offense
offence
onslaught
assert
out for blood
fray
pushback
onset
bodyguard
affrontment
championship
onrush
assaultive
committal
terrorism

English words for 'the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury'

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