All defense synonyms

noun defense

• justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
• shield — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
• fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
• wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
• resistance — the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
• guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
• aegis — sponsorship or protection; auspices (esp in the phrase under the aegis of)
• munitions — Usually, munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
• rampart — Fortification. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet.
• fastness — a secure or fortified place; stronghold: a mountain fastness.
• buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
• fortification — the act of fortifying or strengthening.
• arms — weapons collectively
• bastion — If a system or organization is described as a bastion of a particular way of life, it is seen as being important and effective in defending that way of life. Bastion can be used both when you think that this way of life should be ended and when you think it should be defended.
• immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
• citadel — In the past, a citadel was a strong building in or near a city, where people could shelter for safety.
• stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
• shelter — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
• dike — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
• protection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
• ward — (Aaron) Montgomery, 1843–1913, U.S. merchant and mail-order retailer.
• safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
• fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
• stronghold — a well-fortified place; fortress.
• deterrence — Deterrence is the prevention of something, especially war or crime, by having something such as weapons or punishment to use as a threat.
• warfare — the process of military struggle between two nations or groups of nations; war.
• parapet — Fortification. a defensive wall or elevation, as of earth or stone, in a fortification. an elevation raised above the main wall or rampart of a permanent fortification.
• bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
• trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
• armor — covering worn to protect the body against weapons
• barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
• position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
• security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
• garrison — William Lloyd, 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
• fortress — a large fortified place; a fort or group of forts, often including a town; citadel.
• redoubt — Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).
• bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
• weaponry — weapons or weaponlike instruments collectively.
• rejoinder — an answer to a reply; response.
• whitewash — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
• argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
• story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
• answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
• reply — followup
• return — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
• plea — an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
• vindication — the act of vindicating.
• response — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.