Defend
Defend verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
Question
Question verb - To demand proof of the truth or rightness of.
Usage example: the teenager openly questioned the authority of the town's police force to impose a curfew on residents under the age of 18
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- For every question a contestant correctly answered, the Geek would have to defend his/her medal by answering a harder, "Geek level" question.
Source: Series / Beat the Geeks -
Of course, the bar in question hires a former adversary of Victor's, dwarf attorney Hamilton Schuyler (played by David Rappaport of Time Bandits fame) to defend against the injunction.
Source: Don't You Dare Pity Me! - Those who defend the view that this is a commonly-known thing will point out that the thing in question was not ultimately more than a small part of what the movie was about, though.
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