defensive
/dɪˈfɛn.sɪv/ sustantivo C2En español: defensiva
- A means, attitude or position of defense. Chiefly in on the defensive.
Plural defensives
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“Threats!” cried the jailer, retreating and putting himself on the defensive; “you are certainly going mad.
Science becomes, in their hands, not only a defensive weapon, but still more frequently an offensive one; the one serves against all their physical sufferings, the other against all their enemies.
She did not draw traditional offensive plays or defensive strategies on the smooth surface.
Researchers discovered that when individuals feel stripped of their privacy, they tend to withdraw socially as a defensive coping mechanism.
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