Crossword-Solution: DEFENCES 8 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

We have 21 clues for the answer “DEFENCES”

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CHEVAUX de frise 2 answers
COUNTERMINE 2 answers
CIRCUMVALLATION 3 answers
Fortifications 7 answers
entrenchment 9 answers
fosse 10 answers
stockade 12 answers
moat 13 answers
dyke 15 answers
Earthwork 18 answers
Ranks 18 answers
Mole 31 answers
Parry 31 answers
Barricade 41 answers
lines 42 answers
Barrage 45 answers
Mound 56 answers
Fortification 56 answers
Fence 56 answers
Obstacle 59 answers
Ditch 60 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFENCES (5)

There was a change in Boldwood’s exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Rotherwood was not, however, without defences; no habitation, in that disturbed period, could have been so, without the risk of being plundered and burnt before the next morning.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Egbert was too agitated to eat any breakfast, and went out to superintend the strengthening of the poultry yard defences.
Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki 2011
Dthemetri was in his sphere a true Crusader, and whenever there appeared a fair opening in the defences of Islam, he was ready and eager to make the assault.
Eothen A. W. Kinglake 2008
She pictured the poor creature shivering behind her fallen defences and awaiting with suspense the moment when she could take refuge in the first shelter that offered.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with DEFENCES (3)

According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by renouncing the self, that is, by dropping his ego defences and committing metaphorical suicide, that a person can open up to different modes of being and relating and thereby transform himself into a pure essence of humanity. In so doing, he becomes free to recast himself as a much more joyful and productive person, and attains the only spec…
Neel Burton Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
He stopped at the gate on his way back to the temple, where Gracilis, the Twentieth’s hard-case wolf hunter from the Campanian mountains, was supervising the strengthening of the defences.‘Take some men and tear down the huts along the west wall. And while you’re at it, clear everything for a javelin throw in front of this gate. I want a killing ground from there to about there.’Gracilis grinned and saluted. Like all legionaries, the only thing he liked better than fighting a…
Douglas Jackson Hero of Rome
And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love.
N.R. Walker Spencer Cohen, Book Two