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Defensive Pronunciation

Pronounce Defensive as D EH F EH N S IY V EH.

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    Defensive phonetic transcription:

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    • Traditional IPA representation of defensive: /dɛfɛnsɪvɛ/
    • Modern IPA representation of defensive: /dɛfɛnsɪvɛ/

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    List of meaning for defensive

    used to protect or defend from attack

    defensive, defensive attitude(adj)

    an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive')

    defensive(adj)

    intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack

    "defensive weapons"; "a defensive stance"

    defensive, justificative, justificatory(adj)

    attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing

    intended to resist or prevent attack or aggression

    a defensive alliance among the small nations against the aggressors

    a position of readiness to oppose actual or expected attack

    their unexpectedly harsh words put him on the defensive

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    defensive in sentence

    1. Learning defensive moves through martial arts helped the store clerk ward off the attack of a would-be robber.

    2. The military installation is a large base with several defensive structures and command centers for planning attacks.

    3. After an injurious collide with the defensive line, the quarterback was taken to the hospital.

    4. My defensive puppy can sense any motion in the house and barks at the first sign of movement.

    5. The defensive whiz was able to sack the quarterback with ease during every play.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term defensive

    The Warriors made a lot of defensive mistakes that seemed borne from just the frustration and maybe fatigue, just from The Warriors're playing guys heavy minutes and all that stuff, the Warriors's why I'm pleased that there will be two days before the next game and the next couple after The Warriors, if The Warriors can keep extending the series.

    – Steve Kerr

    I believe that, given the serious Russian violations of the agreement that they signed...that one thing that could hopefully get them to think twice and deter them from further action is strengthening the capacity of the Ukrainian forces, including with defensive lethal equipment.

    – Anthony Blinken

    It is true that if in fact diplomacy fails, what I've asked my team to do is look at all options, the possibility of lethal defensive weapons is one of those options that's being examined.

    – President Obama

    They asked me to do a bunch of stuff that I had never done: covering running backs and receivers and basically almost never rushing the passer, which is what I did in playing defensive line, they don’t have fun there. There’s nothing fun about it. There’s nothing happy about it. I didn’t enjoy any of my time there, you know what I’m saying? It made me for the first time in my life think about not playing football because I hated it that much.

    – Cassius Marsh

    The holy grail of football is the word 'balance', when we attack, we need to be able to attack, but this isn't abstract — it is because ball possession has been recovered or from good defensive work. We work on balance all the time.

    – Oscar Tabarez

    We covered some mistakes, i felt like we played hard. Certain stretches in the game we made the right defensive play.

    – Kobe Bryant

    While these publicity initiatives may look aggressive, the Iranians are always careful to say that the program is defensive in nature.

    – Jeremy Binnie

    The engineering unit that is charged and tasked with actually building the bomb in a secret way for the Iranian regime is called the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research.

    – Alireza Jafarzadeh

    Providing a defensive briefing, like the one given to Senator Feinstein, is a typical response to these kinds of situations, the refusal to give the Trump campaign a defensive briefing, and instead opening a sprawling counter-intelligence investigation of American citizens, is one of many alarming ways that intelligence leaders drastically diverged from normal procedures in their Trump campaign investigation.

    – Devin Nunes

    The Warriors just got to be better all around the floor and especially on the defensive end. And The Warriors starts with me.

    – Draymond Green

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