Anagrams of: ADDEEFNU

• argue or speak in defense of

• be on the defensive; act against an attack

• protect against a challenge or attack

• fight against or resist strongly

• protect or fight for as a champion

• be the defense counsel for someone in a trial

• state or assert

• furnished with funds

• To cancel funding for.

• try to manage without help

• withstand the force of something

• a bitter quarrel between two parties

• carry out a feud

• having lost freshness or brilliance of color

• reduced in strength

• be unbearably loud

• make or render deaf

• make soundproof

• not fed

• not given support

• To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure.