Defend
Defend verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
Mob
Common collocations
| actions | defend actions | mob actions |
Both words in one sentence
- His dad is then found out to be involved with the mob (not the Luca mob, but another one), and suddenly the guy is ironing a suit and ready to act perfectly straight-laced to defend his dad.
Source: Literature / Son of the Mob - This is explicitly stated by a Lizard who was captured and tormented by the Cats to Lion-O, which caused him to later defend the Lizards from an angry lynch mob.
Source: Sympathy for the Devil -
A prisoner, faced with a lynch mob, screams at his jailer to give him a gun so he could defend himself.
Source: Give Me a Sword
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