will have been defending

• future perfect progressive

  future perfect progressive

  Used to describe a continuous action that will progress up until a designated point of completion in the future.

  of defend.
  defend

  verb (used with object)

  to ward off attack from; guard against assault or injury (usually followed by from oragainst ).

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• guard
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