[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act of defending one's person when physically attacked, as by countering blows or overcoming an assailant:the art of self-defense.", "a claim or plea that the use of force or injuring or killing another was necessary in defending one's own person from physical attack:He shot the man who was trying to stab him and pleaded self-defense at the murder trial.", "an act or instance of defending or protecting one's own interests, property, ideas, etc., as by argument or strategy."]}]