Defend and Hide

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Defend

Defend verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
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Hide and defend are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hide" instead a verb "Defend".
Nearby Words: defense, defence, defender, defensive, defending

Hide

Hide verb - To put into a hiding place.
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Defend and hide are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defend" instead a verb "Hide".
Nearby Words: hideous, hiding, hideously, hided

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people defend people hide people
children defend children hide children
name defend name hide name
time defend time hide time
Other words: way, ship, child.

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Dredd Anderson points out that standard protocol is either hide or defend until backup arrives.
    Source: Film / Dredd
  • Comicbook / Red Skull Non-Action Guy: As a boy, he was too weak to defend himself from the older, stronger criminals who preyed on him, and instead learned to flee and hide when he could and endure when he couldn't.
    Source: Comicbook / Red Skull
  • Locke, a priest of the Warden, balks at faking the funeral rite of another god, even to defend his own hide.
    Source: Literature / Gentleman Bastard
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Hide and Defend. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/defend/hide
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Hide or Defend. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/defend/hide.

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