defended
/dɪˈfɛndɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In which the defendant responds to the allegations made against them, typically by filing a defense or counterclaim in court.
verb
simple past and past participle of defend
Example Sentences
- "For example, in the boreal forest where browsing by hares in winter is an important source of mortality, the juvenile-phase is more defended chemically against browsing by hares in winter than is the conspecific mature-phase (Table 2)."
- "This result corroborates the Hypothesis 2 that the less defended fast-growing species can be replaced over time by more defended slower-growing species."
- "Understandably, the more extreme the condition, the more defended the family and professionals can be."
- "If this simpler procedure were adopted in a defended case the cost would be about 29l. if counsel were employed, and about 27l. if no counsel or solicitor were employed."
- "But only in less than 5% there was a court order in a defended case (Müller-Alten, 1984)."
- "The Court of Appeal used the case to make a strong call for the removal of fault-based grounds, arguably at the expense of deciding in Mrs Owens' favour, and openly acknowledged that a lower threshold for behaviour is used in undefended cases scrutinised by a legal adviser at a divorce centre rather than a judge in a court in a defended case."
Etymology
Etymology tree English defend Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English defended From defend + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more defended (comparative)
most defended (superlative)