Aid and Defend

Aid

Aid verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Defend and aid are semantically related in support topic. In some cases you can use "Defend" instead a verb "Aid".

Nearby Words: aids, aided, aide, aiding, aider

Defend

Defend verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

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Aid and defend are semantically related in support topic. Sometimes you can use "Aid" instead a verb "Defend", if it concerns topics such as show support for.

Nearby Words: defense, defence, defender, defensive, defending

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Common collocations

friend	aid friend	defend friend
humanity	aid humanity	defend humanity
people	aid people	defend people
children	aid children	defend children
Other words: family, someone, way, earth, father, anyone, town, son, humans, sister, friends, members.

Both words in one sentence

Helen's beauty and the kingship she brought were such prizes that each suitor swore an oath before the gods to defend and aid the suitor chosen, should Helen be stolen.

Source: Comic Book / Age of Bronze
Near the end of the main quest of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, you have to seek aid from all the cities in Cyrodiil to defend Bruma from a siege.

Source: Gondor Calls For Aid / Video Games
By late 1941 Soviet aid dries up completely as all Soviet pilots, aeroplanes, and advisors are recalled to defend The Motherland from Germany's Operation Barbarossa.

Source: World War II / War In Asia And The Pacific

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