Usually means: Protection from harm, legally justified.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-defense: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-defense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-defense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-defense, self-defense: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-defense: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self-Defense, Self-defense, self-defense: Wordnik
  7. self-defense: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. self-defense: Wiktionary
  9. self-defense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. self-defense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. self-defense: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. self-defense: Dictionary.com
  13. self-defense: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. self-defense: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Self-defense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Self-defense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. self-defense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. self-defense: Rhymezone
  19. Self-defense: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. self-defense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. self-defense: FreeDictionary.org
  22. self-defense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. self-defense: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-defense: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. self-defense: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. self-defense: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Self-Defense: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-defense: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Self-Defense: Catholic Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  The means of defending oneself from physical attack.
▸ noun:  (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.

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Phrases:
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