To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
To call a raise from the big blind.
To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
To submit something; to give.
To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
To go to bed; to retire to bed.
To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.