Defend and Manage

Defend

Defend verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

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

Manage verb - To deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently.

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Defend and manage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defend" instead a verb "Manage".

life	defend life	manage life
people	defend people	manage people
family	defend family	manage family
station	defend station	manage station
Other words: time, way, school, world.

Ygritte says all wildling women know how to defend themselves from unwanted advances, and implies that even if you do manage to rape a wildling woman, she'll kill you in your sleep.

Source: Chastity Dagger
Oblivion had Weynon Priory, home to a few ex-Blades who manage to arm and defend themselves with claymores when attacked by the Mythic Dawn.

Source: Church Militant
In Sinestro's solo comic, the Corps head to Earth to defend it from an invasion of emotion stealing creatures (and even manage to recruit heroes and villains from Earth into the Corps to help out).

Source: Characters / GL Sinestro Corps

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