Defending and Escorting

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Defending adjective - Attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring.

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Escorting and defending are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Escorting" instead a noun "Defending".

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Defending and escorting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defending" instead a noun "Escorting".

Nearby Words: escort, escorted

While we're on the subject of Oblivion, most sidequests that involve escorting or defending an NPC are usually difficult to get through, due mainly to everyone in the game having seemingly attended the Leeroy Jenkins self defense class.

Source: That One Sidequest
Capturing the center control point, successfully escorting the engine, or successfully defending your spawn from the engine awards one point, and the first team to 4 points wins.

Source: Video Game / Paladins
The other three (assassination, escorting a ship and defending a system) can have marginal impact if your interference causes or prevents the random ship from doing something helpful or harmful within a system.

Source: Video Game / Space Rangers

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