Defence and Return

Defence

Defence noun - The act of defending someone or something against attack or injury.

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Return and defence are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Return" instead a noun "Defence".

Return noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.

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Defence and return are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defence" instead a noun "Return".

Nearby Words: returned, returning, returnable, returnee, returner

good	good defence	good return
special	special defence	special return
better	better defence	better return
initial	initial defence	initial return
Other adjectives: actual, entire, real, successful, main, possible, last, earlier.

In their defence, they did send Corak (a Corak, anyhow) after Sheltem... though they apparently didn't bother to check-up after he failed to return with Sheltem on schedule.

Source: Video Game / Might and Magic
The Church of the Assembly of Man in The Return, who are all batshit insane in their "defence" of humanity.

Source: Acceptable Religious Targets
Alicia begins running the pro bono cases, but of course, shes a defence lawyer and all the prosecutors know her—including the new States Attorney, who may have shopped her husband to the authorities.Meanwhile, her husband Peter is trying to clear his name and potentially return to politics.

Source: Series / The Good Wife

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