Board and Defend

Board

Board verb - To provide food or meals for.

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Defend and board are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Defend" instead a verb "Board".

Nearby Words: boarded, boarder, boarding, boardroom

Defend verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

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Board and defend are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Board" instead a verb "Defend".

Franklin has to defend her to the school board, and crushes on her a little during the case, leading to Bash invoking the page quote.

Source: Teacher/Student Romance
Other drones can defend against incoming fire, especially missiles, repair damaged systems, repair your ship's hull, repel boarders, or be sent over to board the enemy.

Source: Video Game / FTL: Faster Than Light
Among its worst plays: Not replacing a creature that has been debuffed to death thus letting those useless creatures clog up the board, replacing a strong creature with a weaker one instead, putting creatures at the wrong lane thus unable to defend properly, and so on.

Source: Video Game / Sol Forge

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