How to pronounce “self-defense”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The means of defending oneself from physical attack.
• (law) The right to protect oneself against violence by using reasonable force, which can be used as justification in several charges including murder, assault, and battery.

Practice Nearby Words

self-defence, self-protection, defence, defense, defend, defensive, vigilante, restraint, autonomy, self-control, self-government, self-rule, self, defenceless, sdf, skateboard, defending, gsdf, self-defensive, combatives, assault, assault at arms, armed response, attack, protective reaction, fight, counterassault, fightback, offensive, argumentum baculinum, battery, chance-medley, battered person syndrome, weapon, bruising, counteraction, violence, wifebeating, mortal combat, action, self-violence, aggression, holding action, close combat, sexual violence, retaliation, attack au fer, strike, stalking, battered woman syndrome, brutality, weapons offence, electric, deterrence, fighting, manhandling, sparring, charge, weap, fray, robbery, domestic, dueling, fistfight, dagger of lath, suicide attack, ammunition, mutual combat, threat, insistence, sex attack, sexual assault, melee, verbal assault, dead set, cutman, extension, attempt, combat, stinger, line of attack, force, krav, prise de fer, offense, pushback, fisticuffing, counter-offensive, gunplay, fighting words, onslaught, tactic, brunt, kicking, assassinism, counterarm, play, trauma

Similar Sounds

self-defense, self defence, self-defence, self defense, solidifies, solidify, sullivans, stiffens, steffens, stephans