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codefendant

noun

Etymology

From co- + defendant.

  1. derived from dēfendō
  2. derived from defendant
  3. inherited from defendaunt — “defending; defending in a suit”
  4. prefixed as codefendant — “co + defendant”

Definitions

  1. Any of several defendants answering the same charge.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for codefendant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA