Attend
Attend verb - To go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship.
Usage example: a passel of assistants attend the movie star wherever she goes
Defend and attend are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Defend" instead a verb "Attend".
Nearby Words: attending, attendance
Defend
Defend verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| school | attend school | defend school |
Both words in one sentence
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The Students' ability to defend themselves are severely curtailed because they're still expected to attend their classes, even as the massacre rages on.
Source: Webcomic / Strange School -
In Medabots episode "Ban All Medabots", a bunch of medabots attacked the school the main characters attend and the students got their medabots to defend it.
Source: Combat by Champion -
Action Dress Rip: When fighting to defend the Carrington Institute from the joint Skedar/dataDyne forces, Joanna is wearing a long dress (because she was to attend a three-way meeting between the President, Carrington Institute and the Maians), which she rips towards the end of the intro cutscene.
Source: Video Game / Perfect Dark
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