defensive
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- adjective
- /dɪˈfɛnsɪv/
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defensivo
- The soldiers established a defensive line to protect the city from enemy attacks.
- defensive measures
- defensive strategy
- offensive and defensive
This is arguably well, no, definitely the greatest defensive boxer of all time.
- This is arguably well, no, definitely the greatest defensive boxer of all time.
- If they, I have no doubt that every country has offensive and defensive cyber commands.
- NATO based on its own constitution, it's a defensive organization, correct?
- But I mean, he's fighting the best defensive boxer, you know, maybe ever maybe.
- Well, I think that we don't we don't we don't respect defensive players.
- So the checklist is is a more kind of defensive tool to help you avoid pitfalls.
- Who's the defensive end with the Raiders?
- And that's where there may have been some scuffling and defensive wounds as well.
- He's naturally doesn't have the defensive instincts that you would need like.
Examples
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Give me a defensive perimeter so we can load the wounded.
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The literature on public space points to common issues of defensive design, surveillance, and segregation in world cities.
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And it's something that defensive players do.
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It's kind of like a defensive mode for her.
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And that the United States will provide assistance, which is defensive assistance in that area.
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Because let's be very clear, this was not a defensive action by Iran.
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He found a strong defensive position and made a stand.
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So they set up a kind of defensive bulwark to keep the Dragons out.
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Harris has been in trouble, but, has battled his way out, with the help of some great defensive plays.
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Crops are also being aided by the use of special defensive strategies against insects.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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Made to keep a person or thing safe from harm
Giving a layer that keeps things safe from damage
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How Defensive
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Etymology
Defensive comes from the parts de- ('off') and fend (an old verb meaning 'push back') and is the same root as defend and defense. So defensive is about 'keeping danger away', which is why we call locks, walls, or a guarded position 'defensive' measures.