noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
defend
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I take up points of view I don't actually support strongly and start defending them to the hilt .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And so I divvied up the company into manageable pieces and told these executives to go play the game to the hilt .
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Any man worthy of the name must seize his opportunity when it came and exploit it to the hilt .
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Burun attempted to draw the blade, but there was some kind of locking device at the hilt .
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Environmental organisations have worked that one to the hilt .
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He also wore a typical bright blue cloak, and always carried a sword with a gilded hilt .
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Weighing four pounds, it has survived the centuries well, still bearing traces of gilding on the brass hilt .