Crossword-Solution: DEFENDING 9 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Defending p. pr. & vb. n. of Defend

We have 37 clues for the answer “DEFENDING”

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ARMING 4 answers
Fortifying 34 answers
redeeming 35 answers
motherly 35 answers
freeing 35 answers
rescuing 36 answers
protective 36 answers
protecting 36 answers
preventing 36 answers
liberating 36 answers
safeguarding 36 answers
custodial 36 answers
Sisterly 36 answers
sustaining 36 answers
COMPENSATORY ___ 36 answers
brotherly 37 answers
preserving 37 answers
pardoning 37 answers
screening 38 answers
Immunisation 39 answers
sheltering 39 answers
nourishing 40 answers
shielding 40 answers
Defensive 42 answers
delivering 43 answers
Patriarchal. 47 answers
On guard 48 answers
aiding 49 answers
preventive 51 answers
guarding 52 answers
paternal 54 answers
guardian 56 answers
remedial 56 answers
Fortification 56 answers
fatherly 56 answers
Saving 66 answers
Tender 83 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFENDING (5)

From this point of view, the necessity for defending the glories of white civilization against the corruption of racial degeneration justified more and more radical action.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
The single window opened upon an embattled space surmounting the turret, which gave Rebecca, at first sight, some hopes of escaping; but she soon found it had no communication with any other part of the battlements, being an isolated bartisan, or balcony, secured, as usual, by a parapet, with embrasures, at which a few archers might be stationed for defending the turret, and flanking with their shot the wall of the castle on that side.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
With a fate worse than death staring her in the face, and with the knowledge that I should probably die defending her within the hour, I was still happier than I had been for weeks—and all because I had seen again for a few brief minutes the figure of a little heathen maiden.
The Lost Continent Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994
But he is incapable of defending them in a discussion, and vainly tries to cover his confusion in banter and insolence.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
But the theme burned in her mind, and finally took this shape: at least she would write some sketches and show the Christian world what slavery really was, and what the system was that they were defending.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008

Quotes with DEFENDING (3)

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
James D. Nicoll
Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
Robert G. Ingersoll Individuality From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
. . . the only legitimate reason that kingship is not attractive to us is because in this age and this world the only kings available are finite and sinful. Listen to C. S. Lewis describe why he believes in democracy: A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that everyone deserved a share in the government. The danger of defending democracy on those grounds is…
John Piper