Defending and Surrender

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Defending

Defending adjective - Attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring.
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Surrender is an antonym for defending in topics: protect, show support for.
Nearby Words: defend, defended, defender, defensive, defendant

Surrender

Surrender verb - To give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress.
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Defending is an antonym for surrender.
Nearby Words: surrendered, surrendering
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  • Useful Notes / Russians with Rifles The Russians then concentrated ten artillery batteries on Telish and fired 3,000 rounds to force the defending Turks to surrender.
    Source: Useful Notes / Russians with Rifles
  • Laurence Munro also had shades of this during her enforced stay in Cawnpore, taking care of injured soldiers, trying to keep the morale high and arguing with the officer defending the place so that he would not surrender to Nana Sahib.
    Source: Literature / The Steam House
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