Dictionary entry

On the defensive

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Myanmar Meaning

[IDM ] ဝေဖန်တိုက်ခိုက်မှုတို့ကို ခုခံရန် အသင့်ရှိသော။ ခံစစ်အနေအထားရှိသော။

Definition

defensive /dÇ'fensÇv/ adj ၁။ ခံ (စစ္)။ ကာကြယ္ေရး။ defensive warfare/measures ❍ a defensive weapon system to destroy incoming missiles ရန္သူ႕ဒံုးခြင္းရန္ ကာကြယ္ေရး လက္နက္စနစ္။ ❍ a team that plays a very defensive game. ခံစစ္သက္သက္ ကစားသြားေသာအသင္း။ ၂။ ~(about sb/sth) ေဝဖန္မႈ၊ ထိုးႏွက္မႈကို ခုခံကာကြယ္ေသာ။ When asked to explain her behaviour, she gave a very defensive answer. … ဖံုးဖံုးဖိဖိ ေျဖသြားတယ္။ ❍ She's very defensive about her part in the affair. Compare OFFENSIVE ၂ ❏ on the defensive [ IDM ] ေဝဖန္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈတို႔ကို ခုခံရန္ အသင့္ရိွေသာ။ ခံစစ္အေနအထားရိွေသာ။ the team was thrown on(to) the defensive as their opponents rallied. ❍ Talk about boy friends always puts her on the defensive. သူ႕ရည္းစားသနံေတြအေၾကာင္း ေရာက္တာႏွင့္ ကာဆီး ကာဆီး လုပ္ေတာ့တာပဲ။ defensively adv defensiveness n [U]

Examples

  1. Defensive weapons
  2. He got really defensive when I asked why he had left.
  3. A strong defensive effort