defence
comment: the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he said the other man started it"
label: defense
label: refutation
broader: answer 1 10 00
label: defence
narrower: confutation 1 10 00
narrower: rebuttal 1 10 00
nearly same as: synset-refutation-noun-1
note: This resource corresponds to the meaning of the gloss text. It shares its meaning with that of the synonym set rather than denoting the WordNet synset.