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defences

n. (plural of defence English)

Usage examples of "defences".

There wasn’t a planet or moon or asteroid settlement in the Confederation they hadn’t explored and populated with fanciful societies before the old man finally found the combination of drugs and alcohol which could penetrate the beleaguered defences of his enhanced organs.

My team are combat trained and well equipped, we should be able to augment whatever defences you have.

If you believe you are able to increase our defences your team will be allowed to enter and stay.

It’ll have to be a cargo ship of some kind, one which Govcentral’s defences will accept is harmless.

The voidhawks have just about given up that nonsense, but they’re still probing our defences, so we have to remain vigilant.

This world had massive defences, and its people could do whatever they wanted with lots of fabulous machines to help them.

This planet’s got the greatest defences in the galaxy, and the possessed just breezed through them like they weren’t even there.

I’m hoping that if we can get his general health level up, then his natural defences will kick in.

Stopping the slow spread of possession, strengthening the defences of the key star systems.

Keithland's defences were spread perilously thin already, with the Stormwar-den still trapped within the ice.

Rather than batter her defences with energies to reclaim his victim, the Dark-dreamer sent words across the link.

By day she dream-wove defences, intricate patterns of energy bound into wards to protect the men at arms whose ready vigilance kept her safe from assault by demons.

Then, in the depths of the dark when her concentration waned from weariness, they would choose an isolated camp or farmstead, and smash the defences so laboriously strengthened each night.

Keithland's existing defences were critically inadequate to offset Shadowfane's latest offensive.

The instant their powers peaked, Maelgrim Dark-dreamer would crush her defences as easily as a child might mash an ant.