Defend and Solve

Defend

Defend verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

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

Solve verb - To find an answer for through reasoning.

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Defend and solve are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defend" instead a verb "Solve".

Nearby Words: solution, solved, solving, solvable, solver

time	defend time	solve time
way	defend way	solve way

While Prier and friends defend her, it becomes clear that it will take more than that to solve the problem since they never actually address Prier's desire for power.

Source: Video Game / La Pucelle
Guile Hero: Oddly enough, for someone supposedly bound to defend Law, Lythande's at least as likely, if not more, to solve an obstacle with wits, bluffs, third options, and manipulation as with magic and force.

Source: Literature / Lythande
This gets her promoted to Acting Imperial Governor with deliberately impossible orders ("enforce a cease-fire between two alien factions without using Imperial troops to defend aliens"), so she takes advantage of a militia that the Emperor didn't know about to solve the problem.

Source: My Rule-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours

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