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defensively

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American sounddefensively
defensively
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de - fen - si - ve - ly -> defensively

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defensive /dÇ'fensÇv/ adj

၁။ ခံ (စစ်)။ ကာကွယ်ရေး။
defensive warfare/measures ❍ a defensive weapon system to destroy incoming missiles ရန်သူ့ဒုံးခွင်းရန် ကာကွယ်ရေး လက်နက်စနစ်။ ❍ a team that plays a very defensive game. ခံစစ်သက်သက် ကစားသွားသောအသင်း။
၂။ ~(about sb/sth) ဝေဖန်မှု၊ ထိုးနှက်မှုကို ခုခံကာကွယ်သော။
When asked to explain her behaviour, she gave a very defensive answer. …
ဖုံးဖုံးဖိဖိ ဖြေသွားတယ်။
❍ She's very defensive about her part in the affair. Compare OFFENSIVE ၂
❏ on the defensive [IDM ] ဝေဖန်တိုက်ခိုက်မှုတို့ကို ခုခံရန် အသင့်ရှိသော။ ခံစစ်အနေအထားရှိသော။ the team was thrown on(to) the defensive as their opponents rallied. ❍ Talk about boy friends always puts her on the defensive. သူ့ရည်းစားသနံတွေအကြောင်း ရောက်တာနှင့် ကာဆီး ကာဆီး လုပ်တော့တာပဲ။ defensively adv defensiveness n [U]

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  • Defensive weapons
  • He got really defensive when I asked why he had left.
  • A strong defensive effort
Synonyms
suspicious, self-protective, cynical, distrustful, shifty, guilty, apologetic, armored, arresting, averting, balking, cautious, checking, conservative, coping with, defending, foiling, forestalling, fortified, frustrating, guarding, in opposition, interrupting, on guard, on lookout, on one's toes, on the lookout, on the watch, on toes, opposing, preservative, preventive, protecting, protective, resistive, safeguarding, self-justifying, shielding, thwarting, uptight, warding off, wary, watchful, withstanding
Antonyms
aggressive, offensive, undefensive, unprotective, unwary, unwatchful
Cross references
suspiciousself-protectivecynicaldistrustfulshiftyguiltyapologeticarmoredarrestingavertingbalkingcautiouscheckingconservativecoping withdefendingfoilingforestallingfortifiedfrustratingguardingin oppositioninterruptingon guardon lookouton one's toeson the lookouton the watch
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