Championed vs Defend - What's the difference?
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(champion)
Someone who has been a winner in a contest.
(rfex-sense) Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.
Someone who fights for a cause or status.
Someone who fights on another's behalf.
(label) Acting as a champion; that has defeated all one's competitors.
(label) Excellent; beyond compare.
Excellent; superb; deserving of high praise.
(obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
*:The vertue is, that neither steele, nor stone / The stroke thereof from entrance may defend .
(obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
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*:Broder said sir launcelot wete ye wel I am ful lothe to departe oute of this realme / but the quene hath defended me soo hyhely / that me semeth she wille neuer be my good lady as she hath ben
To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
(legal) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Steven Morris, work=Guardian
, title= (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
(sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
(poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
As verbs the difference between championed and defend
is that championed is past tense of champion while defend is to ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).championed
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(wikipedia champion)Noun
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(en verb)Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave, passage=Philip Miles, defending , said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."}}