Usually means: Protection from harm or danger.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word self-defence:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-defence, self-defence: Collins English Dictionary
  2. self-defence: Vocabulary.com
  3. Self-Defence, Self-defence, self-defence: Wordnik
  4. self-defence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. self-defence: Wiktionary
  6. self-defence: Dictionary.com
  7. Self-defence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Self-defence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. self-defence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. self-defence: Rhymezone
  11. self-defence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. self-defence: FreeDictionary.org
  13. self-defence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. self-defence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Self-defence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-defence: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of self-defense [The means of defending oneself from physical attack.]

Similar:
self-protection, self-defense, personal defence weapon, safe-guard, duelling, safe-keeping, counterattack, selfsabotage, counter-attacker, pepper-spray, more...

Opposite:
offence, aggression, attack

Types:
karate, judo, aikido, tai kwdo, tae kwon do, kung fu, more...

Phrases:
noble art of self-defence, Self-defence in English law, Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland, more...



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Similar:
self-protection, self-defense, personal defence weapon, safe-guard, duelling, safe-keeping, counterattack, selfsabotage, counter-attacker, pepper-spray, more...

Opposite:
offence, aggression, attack

Types:
karate, judo, aikido, tai kwdo, tae kwon do, kung fu, more...

Phrases:
noble art of self-defence, Self-defence in English law, Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland, more...



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