Roget's Thesaurus

#717. Defense

Nouns

defense, protection, guard, ward; shielding etc. v.; propugnation, preservation etc. 670; guardianship. area defense; site defense. self-defense, self-preservation; resistance etc. 719. safeguard etc. (safety) 664; balistraria; bunker, screen etc. (shelter) 666; camouflage etc. (concealment) 530; fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall, dead wall, contravallation; paling etc. (inclosure) 232; palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise [Fr.]; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos. buttress, abutment; shore etc. (support) 215. breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin; vauntmure; advance work, horn work, outwork; barbacan, barbican; redoubt; fort-elage [Fr.], fort-alice; lines. loophole, machicolation; sally port. hold, stronghold, fastness; asylum etc. (refuge) 666; keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle; tower of strength, tower of strength; fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath; wooden walls. [body armor] bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako etc. (dress) 225. bearskin; panoply; truncheon etc. (weapon) 727. garrison, picket, piquet; defender, protector; guardian etc. (safety) 664; bodyguard, champion; knight-errant, Paladin; propugner. bulletproof window. hardened site.

Verbs

defend, forfend, fend; shield, screen, shroud; engarrison; fend round etc. (circumscribe) 229; fence, entrench, intrench; guard etc. (keep safe) 664; guard against; take care of etc. (vigilance) 459; bear harmless; fend off, keep off, ward off, beat off, beat back; hinder etc. 706. parry, repel, propugn, put to flight; give a warm reception to [Iron.]; hold at bay, keep at bay, keep arm's length. stand on the defensive, act on the defensive; show fight; maintain one's ground, stand one's ground; stand by; hold one's own; bear the brunt, stand the brunt; fall back upon, hold, stand in the gap.

Adjectives

defending etc. v.; defensive; mural; armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth; panoplied; iron-plated, ironclad; loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated; defended etc. v.; proof against. armored, ballproof, bulletproof; hardened.

Adverbs

defensively; on the defense, on the defensive; in defense; at bay, pro aris et focis [Lat.].

Interjections

no surrender!

Phrases

defense not defiance; Dieu defend le droit [Fr.]; fidei defensor [Lat.], defender of the faith.