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(psych.) - A way of escaping stressful thoughts or situations, by mentally forming new thoughts detached from reality.
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| defense mechanism |
a physical part of or a process in a plant or anhnal that helps protect it against attack or injury.
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| defense |
The team not in possession of the ball whose objective is to keep the opponent from scoring; also a specific pattern of play used by a defending team.
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| defense |
A knight was to defend both his liege lord, and to others who require defense such as ladies, the infirm and poor, children and the old. The two duties began as separate constraints. The first one, defense of the liege lord, is common to all feudal cultures. All warriors were to defend their lords. The addition of duties extending to ladies, and others in need of defense comes both from the romantic literature and from the church. ...
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| defense m. |
a usually unconscious mental process that serves to relieve conflict and anxiety arising from one's impulses and drives, e.g., compensation, conversion, denial, rationalization, repression.
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