defendunt

defendunt is a Latin form of defendo, meaning “defend, ward off”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.75: … tino periculo exterriti sinistras sagis involvunt gladiosque destringunt atque ita se a cetratis equitibusque defendunt castrorum propinquitate confisi seque in castra recipiunt et ab eis cohortibus, quae erant in statione ad por …

Lucan, Civil War 9.673: Defenduntque caput praetenti crinibus hydri:

All forms of defendo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.