What is another word for defense?

Synonyms for Defense:

• Other synonyms:

  •Department of Defense
  • department of defense.
  •DoD
  • dod.
  •
  • advocacy,
  • alibi,
  • antibody,
  • apologia,
  • candida,
  • catharsis,
  • conditioning,
  • continuance,
  • defendant,
  • deposition,
  • espousal,
  • fester,
  • immunity,
  • lymphatic,
  • obsessive,
  • patronage,
  • promotion,
  • pus,
  • quarantine,
  • safe-conduct,
  • safekeeping,
  • self-defense,
  • self-preservation,
  • septic,
  • solidarity,
  • special pleading,
  • sty,
  • cheerleading,
  • biosecurity,
  • cross-contamination,
  • protective custody.
  •
  • adherence,
  • alignment,
  • anchor,
  • championship,
  • conservation,
  • contagion,
  • endorsement,
  • examination,
  • exhibit,
  • exorcism,
  • fixation,
  • foreign,
  • fortification,
  • immune,
  • invasion,
  • loyalty,
  • obsess,
  • obsession,
  • pestilential,
  • regression,
  • retreat,
  • sanctuary,
  • silo,
  • testimony,
  • transference,
  • fixated.
  •
  • custody,
  • delusion,
  • evidence,
  • mechanism,
  • motion,
  • pleading,
  • preservation,
  • protector,
  • rock,
  • salvation,
  • transmission.
  •
  • carrier,
  • complex.
  •
  • appearance.
  •
  • damage,
  • ward.
  •
  • spread.
  •
  • care.
  •
  • case.
  •buttress
  • bulwark.
  •defence force
  • Defence Force.
  •defence mechanism
  • Defence Mechanism.
  •defence reaction
  • Defence Reaction.
  •ill-treatment
  • abuse.
  •stockade
  • palisade.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abnegation,
  • absolve,
  • abuse,
  • adherence,
  • advocacy,
  • advocate,
  • aegis,
  • affectionate,
  • affirm,
  • agriculture,
  • alibi,
  • alignment,
  • ammo,
  • ammunition,
  • anchor,
  • antibody,
  • antitoxin,
  • apologetic,
  • apologetics,
  • apologia,
  • apology,
  • appearance,
  • argumentation,
  • arm,
  • armament,
  • armature,
  • armed,
  • armory,
  • armoury,
  • arms,
  • arsenal,
  • artillery,
  • assault,
  • assert,
  • assertion,
  • asylum,
  • at bay,
  • attack,
  • attention,
  • attorney,
  • back,
  • backfield,
  • backing,
  • backstop,
  • bailiff,
  • ballplayer,
  • bamboo curtain,
  • bank,
  • bar,
  • barrage,
  • barrister,
  • bastille,
  • bastion,
  • bear,
  • bear out,
  • behalf,
  • bicker,
  • bickering,
  • block,
  • blue,
  • boom,
  • boy,
  • breakwater,
  • breastwork,
  • brief,
  • buckler,
  • bulkhead,
  • bulwark,
  • bumper,
  • buttress,
  • cabinet,
  • candida,
  • care,
  • carrier,
  • case,
  • casuistry,
  • catharsis,
  • center,
  • championship,
  • citadel,
  • cleanup,
  • clerk,
  • cloistered,
  • club,
  • cofferdam,
  • comeback,
  • comfortable,
  • comfy,
  • commerce,
  • complex,
  • conditioning,
  • conductor,
  • conference,
  • confession,
  • confirm,
  • conservation,
  • conserve,
  • consolidate,
  • contagion,
  • contention,
  • contest,
  • continuance,
  • continue,
  • contrite,
  • controversy,
  • convoy,
  • cool,
  • copout,
  • council,
  • counterblast,
  • counterblow,
  • counterclaim,
  • counterfire,
  • counterinsurgency,
  • counterrevolution,
  • covering,
  • covert,
  • cozy,
  • custody,
  • dam,
  • damage,
  • declaration,
  • declare,
  • defence,
  • Defence Force,
  • Defence Mechanism,
  • Defence Reaction,
  • defend,
  • defendant,
  • defending team,
  • defense department,
  • defense force,
  • defense lawyers,
  • defense mechanism,
  • defense reaction,
  • defense team,
  • defensive,
  • defensive measure,
  • defensive structure,
  • defensively,
  • delusion,
  • demur,
  • demurral,
  • demurrer,
  • department of defense,
  • deposition,
  • deterrence,
  • deterrent,
  • disputation,
  • dispute,
  • ditch,
  • dod,
  • duel,
  • earthwork,
  • education,
  • embankment,
  • endorsement,
  • enter,
  • escort,
  • espousal,
  • evidence,
  • examination,
  • exception,
  • exculpation,
  • exhibit,
  • exonerate,
  • exoneration,
  • exorcism,
  • extenuation,
  • eye,
  • face,
  • falsification,
  • falsifying,
  • fastness,
  • fence,
  • fend,
  • fester,
  • fixation,
  • foil,
  • foreign,
  • fort,
  • fortification,
  • fortify,
  • front,
  • garrison,
  • gate,
  • genius loci,
  • groin,
  • groyne,
  • guardian angel,
  • guardianship,
  • hassle,
  • health,
  • hold,
  • homely,
  • house of representatives,
  • hubbub,
  • immune,
  • immunity,
  • inoculation,
  • insist,
  • interior,
  • invasion,
  • iron curtain,
  • jam,
  • jetty,
  • jive,
  • justice,
  • justificatory,
  • justify,
  • keep,
  • labor,
  • lee,
  • levee,
  • line,
  • litigation,
  • logjam,
  • loyalty,
  • lymphatic,
  • maintain,
  • maintenance,
  • maternal,
  • mechanism,
  • meet,
  • milldam,
  • mole,
  • motion,
  • mound,
  • munitions,
  • obsess,
  • obsession,
  • obsessive,
  • palisade,
  • panoply,
  • parapet,
  • parliament,
  • patronage,
  • penitent,
  • pestilential,
  • play,
  • pleading,
  • polarity,
  • polemic,
  • portcullis,
  • position,
  • precaution,
  • preservation,
  • preserve,
  • preventive,
  • promotion,
  • proof,
  • protect,
  • protective,
  • protector,
  • pus,
  • quarantine,
  • race,
  • rampart,
  • rank,
  • rationalization,
  • reason,
  • rebutter,
  • recrimination,
  • redoubt,
  • refuge,
  • regression,
  • regretful,
  • remorseful,
  • replication,
  • represent,
  • reserved,
  • retaliation,
  • retreat,
  • rhubarb,
  • ride,
  • roadblock,
  • rock,
  • safe,
  • safe-conduct,
  • safekeeping,
  • safety,
  • salvation,
  • sanctuary,
  • seawall,
  • secluded,
  • self-abnegation,
  • self-defence,
  • self-defense,
  • self-denial,
  • self-preservation,
  • self-protection,
  • self-renunciation,
  • senate,
  • septic,
  • set-to,
  • shade,
  • shaded,
  • shadow,
  • sheltered,
  • siege,
  • silo,
  • snug,
  • solidarity,
  • song and dance,
  • sorry,
  • speak for,
  • special pleading,
  • spread,
  • stand,
  • state,
  • statement,
  • stockade,
  • stone wall,
  • stopper,
  • store,
  • story,
  • sty,
  • supreme court,
  • surrebuttal,
  • surrebutter,
  • surrejoinder,
  • sustain,
  • testimony,
  • tilt,
  • transference,
  • transmission,
  • treasury,
  • trench,
  • uphold,
  • vindicate,
  • vindication,
  • vindicatory,
  • ward,
  • warfare,
  • weapon,
  • weaponry,
  • weir,
  • whitewash,
  • work,
  • wrangling,
  • Apologizing,
  • Burrock,
  • Disaffirmation,
  • Excusing,
  • Explaining,
  • Logomachy,
  • Pleadings,
  • Polemics,
  • Refutal,
  • Sea wall,
  • Bear-trap dam,
  • Trocha,
  • countercharge,
  • United States Department of Defense,
  • Counterstep,
  • Counterstroke,
  • Propugn,
  • Sympathies,
  • upholding,
  • fixated,
  • armaments,
  • weapons,
  • courts,
  • cheerleading,
  • fish story,
  • stand up for,
  • stick up for,
  • all-American,
  • biosecurity,
  • cross-contamination,
  • protective custody,
  • speak up for,
  • war of words,
  • dike,
  • Dead wall,
  • passage of arms,
  • on the defensive,
  • contend for,
  • counteraccusation,
  • counterstatement,
  • mess-up,
  • off-time,
  • plead ignorance,
  • keep in countenance,
  • tutelary saint,
  • watchful eye,
  • flyting,
  • deadly weapon,
  • tutelary deity,
  • arch dam,
  • fidei defensor,
  • beaver dam.

• n.

  •
  • advocacy,
  • aegis,
  • antitoxin,
  • backing,
  • bumper,
  • championship,
  • custody,
  • endorsement,
  • front,
  • guardianship,
  • inoculation,
  • loyalty,
  • maintenance,
  • offense,
  • precaution,
  • preservation,
  • retaliation,
  • solidarity,
  • stand,
  • Sympathies.
  •
  • advocate,
  • attack,
  • attorney,
  • bailiff,
  • barrister,
  • clerk,
  • siege.
  •
  • alibi,
  • assertion,
  • back,
  • backfield,
  • ballplayer,
  • blue,
  • boy,
  • case,
  • center,
  • club,
  • conference,
  • declaration,
  • pleading,
  • proof,
  • statement,
  • testimony,
  • all-American.
  •
  • ammo,
  • armed,
  • armory,
  • armoury,
  • arms,
  • arsenal,
  • artillery,
  • assault,
  • protector,
  • ward,
  • armaments.
  •
  • antibody,
  • apologetic,
  • apologia,
  • candida,
  • carrier,
  • contagion,
  • fester,
  • biosecurity,
  • cross-contamination.
  •
  • appearance,
  • continuance,
  • deposition,
  • evidence,
  • examination,
  • exhibit.
  •
  • conservation,
  • safekeeping,
  • sanctuary,
  • self-defense,
  • self-preservation.
  •
  • catharsis,
  • complex,
  • conditioning,
  • damage,
  • delusion,
  • exorcism,
  • fixation,
  • fixated.
  •
  • contest,
  • duel,
  • enter,
  • face,
  • meet,
  • play,
  • race,
  • represent,
  • ride.
  •act (noun)
  • defence,
  • defensive measure.
  •answer (noun)
  • counterclaim,
  • refutation.
  •apologia (noun)
  • apologetics.
  •armament; protection system (noun)
  • aegis,
  • armor,
  • arms,
  • barricade,
  • bastille,
  • bastion,
  • bulwark,
  • buttress,
  • citadel,
  • cover,
  • deterrence,
  • embankment,
  • fastness,
  • fence,
  • fort,
  • fortification,
  • fortress,
  • garrison,
  • guard,
  • immunity,
  • munitions,
  • palisade,
  • parapet,
  • position,
  • protection,
  • rampart,
  • redoubt,
  • resistance,
  • safeguard,
  • security,
  • shelter,
  • shield,
  • stockade,
  • stronghold,
  • trench,
  • wall,
  • ward,
  • warfare,
  • weaponry,
  • weapons,
  • dike.
  •bastion (noun)
  • breastwork,
  • stronghold.
  •bulwark (noun)
  • parapet,
  • redoubt.
  •contrast (noun)
  • foil.
  •counter-evidence (noun)
  • confutation,
  • contradiction,
  • disproof,
  • negation,
  • opposition,
  • parry,
  • subversion,
  • counter-evidence.
  •defense (noun)
  • argument,
  • armor,
  • aversion,
  • backfire,
  • barricade,
  • barrier,
  • buffer,
  • counterattack,
  • countermeasure,
  • cover,
  • defence,
  • Defence Force,
  • Defence Mechanism,
  • Defence Reaction,
  • defending team,
  • defense department,
  • defense force,
  • defense lawyers,
  • defense mechanism,
  • defense reaction,
  • defense team,
  • defensive measure,
  • defensive structure,
  • demurrer,
  • denial,
  • department of defense,
  • dod,
  • fortress,
  • guard,
  • harbor,
  • moat,
  • protection,
  • refutation,
  • resistance,
  • safeguard,
  • screen,
  • security,
  • shelter,
  • shield,
  • stronghold,
  • support,
  • vindication,
  • wall.
  •defense mechanism (noun)
  • defense reaction.
  •explanation, justification (noun)
  • answer,
  • apologetics,
  • apologia,
  • apology,
  • argument,
  • cleanup,
  • copout,
  • exculpation,
  • excuse,
  • exoneration,
  • extenuation,
  • jive,
  • plea,
  • rationalization,
  • rejoinder,
  • reply,
  • response,
  • retort,
  • return,
  • song and dance,
  • story,
  • vindication,
  • whitewash,
  • Apologizing,
  • Excusing,
  • Explaining,
  • fish story,
  • off-time.
  •fortification (noun)
  • earthwork,
  • palisade.
  •opposition (noun)
  • duel.
  •plea (noun)
  • appeal,
  • entreaty,
  • petition,
  • plea,
  • suit.
  •preservation (noun)
  • guardianship.
  •response (noun)
  • acknowledgment,
  • answer,
  • denial,
  • echo,
  • excuse,
  • explanation,
  • justification,
  • objection,
  • reaction,
  • rebuttal,
  • refutation,
  • rejoinder,
  • reply,
  • response,
  • retort,
  • return,
  • riposte.
  •weapon (noun)
  • armament.

• v.

  •cover (verb)
  • bumper.