Word Meanings - DEFENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFENCE)
- Justification
- Vindication
- apology
- defence
- advocacy
- maintenance
- plea
- exoneration
- exculpation
- Livelihood
- subsistence
- means of support
- Plea
- Excuse
- vindication
- justification
- ground
- entreaty
- Rampart
- Bulwark
- fortification
- security
- wall
- embankment
- mound
- mole
- outwork
- breastwork
- Security
- Pledge
- guarantee
- warranty
- protection
- safeguard
- pawn
- deposit
- bond
- guard
- shelter
- safety
- certainty
- ease
- assurance
- carelessness
- confidence
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEFENCE)
Related words: (words related to DEFENCE)
- SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - EXCUSEMENT
Excuse. Gower. - CONFIDENCE
1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in - DEPOSITOR
One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository. - GUARDIAN
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., - GUARDIANSHIP
The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch. - APOLOGY
1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem; - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - DEFENCE
See DEFENSE - SAFETY BICYCLE
A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear wheel by a multiplying gear. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - RAMPART
A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan. Syn. -- Bulwark; fence; security; guard. -- Rampart, Bulwark. These words were formerly interchanged; but - EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - GUARDIANESS
A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl. - SHELTERLESS
Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe. - GUARDIANLESS
Without a guardian. Marston. - GUARDER
One who guards. - EXCUSE
1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him - REDEEM
Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - REFORTIFICATION
A fortifying anew, or a second time. Mitford. - INTERPLEDGE
To pledge mutually.