verteidigen — meaning in English

English meaning

• advocate noun A person who publicly supports or argues in favor of a cause, policy, or another person.
• contend verb To compete or struggle against someone or something.
• defend verb To protect someone or something from attack or harm.
• rehabilitate verb To help someone return to good health, function, or a normal life after illness, injury, or addiction.
• uphold verb To support or maintain something, such as a law, principle, or standard.
• vindicate verb To free someone from an accusation, suspicion or criticism.

Senses

verteidigen is used for these senses in English:

• advocate (transitive) To encourage support for something.
• advocate (Scots law, in higher courts) To call a case before itself for decision.
• contend (intransitive) To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
• defend (transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
• make a case for (idiomatic) To present an argument in favor of.
• rehabilitate (transitive) To vindicate; to restore the reputation or image of (a person, concept etc.). [from 18th c.]
• uphold To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned)
• vindicate (transitive) To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.

advocate — full definition

1. noun A person who publicly supports or argues in favor of a cause, policy, or another person.
2. noun A lawyer, especially one who represents a client in court.
3. verb To publicly support or argue in favor of something.

contend — full definition

1. verb To compete or struggle against someone or something.
2. verb To argue firmly that something is true.

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