#to defend
- Defend — To take active protective measures to shelter someone or something from danger, aggression, attack, or a negative consequence. In a legal and social sense, it represents the act of supporting someone's cause, pleading their innocence, or securing their fundamental rights before a court or adverse public opinion.
- To defend oneself — To defend oneself; to directly sustain one's own interests, rights, innocence, or point of view before a court of law, an authority, or accusations brought by others, without necessarily relying on the assistance of a lawyer or legal representative; also, to physically protect oneself against an aggression or external attack through one's own efforts.