held bay (verb) defend: protect
Sinonime: annotative, clarifying, elucidative, exegetic, exegetical, explicative, explicatory, expository, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, illustrative, informative, informing, instructive, interpretative, interpretive
Antonime: abandon,
attack,
desert,
leave,
quit,
relinquish,
resign,
surrender