defensed
Saydi-FENST/dɪˈfɛnst/
- 1Simple past and past participle of defense.
The safety defensed three passes in the fourth quarter.
She defensed the inbound play and forced a turnover.
Note
A regular -ed form of the American verb that sits beside the noun for a team's defense. In current use it means blocking an opponent's play, and it takes a direct object: a defender defensed a pass, or, in the passive, the pass was defensed. An older, now archaic use meant furnished with defenses or protected, so a fortified town could once be called defensed.
defensed is a form of defense
defense, verb: To use defensive tactics in order to block the opposing team. Full entry
- Spelling
- defense → defensed: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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