defensing

Verb (1)

defense (third-person singular simple present defenses, present participle defensing, simple past and past participle defensed)

1. (US) To employ defensive tactics (so as to block).
   • In fact, there is an increase in the effectiveness of the Five Cutter Offense when teams put pressure on, instead of sagging or switching in an attempt to defense the attack successfully.1972, Robert Cimbollek, Basketball’s Percentage Offense, West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 114

Verb (2)

defense (third-person singular simple present defenses, present participle defensing, simple past and past participle defensed)

1. (US, archaic) To furnish with defenses; to defend, protect.
   • In the ſyege of greate cities, takyng a bygge compaſſe rounde abowte, we muſt wyth all laboure: make and intercut not farre of the citie, bꝛode and depe trenches defenſed wyth turrettes of woodde, […]1544, Iames the Erle of Purlilia [i.e., Jacopo di Porcia], translated by Peter Betham, “What is to be done in yͤ syege of bygge cities”, in The Preceptes of Warre, […], London: […] Edwarde...

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