self-defense
self-defence
self-protection
fight back
se defendendo
combatives
defense
defence
self-assertiveness
seclusion
bumptious
abandonment
self-assertive
behaviour
combativeness
gamesmanship
hara-kiri
conduct
behavior
doings
take up the cudgel for
fencible
defensibility
white knight
day in court
wear
apologia
combatability
stand in the gap
self-restraint
assert oneself
temperateness
self-offence
contend
defensive
defensive attitude
ward
fighting
scrap
took law into one's own hands
defensor
shield
took the law into one's own hands
self-assertion
fight
protected
combat
antipositional
asceticism
forbear
self-deprecation
self-renunciation
ascesis
go into one's shell
beratement
self-ordination
self-destruction
defensibleness
tenable
coolness
power trip
self-denial
calling into question
self-incrimination
defensibly
self-deletion
tight-assed
help oneself
prosopon
defend
nervelessness
self-discipline
like turkeys voting for Christmas
defendee
self-reliant
self-control
demand for explanation
peremptory
self-defeating
bossy
magisterial
autocratic
contest
abstinence
tutelage
self-punishment
high-and-mighty
protection
restrainment
dominating
enemy
stand up
stick up
autoconfrontation

English words for 'the act of defending yourself'

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