"defensive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

defensive adjetivo

defensive + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 222
defensive end • defensive coordinator • defensive player • defensive position • defensive line • defensive lineman • defensive back • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 46
(3) player, MVP
Kolokacji: 2
(15) coach, preparation, deployment
Kolokacji: 3
(17) perimeter, coverage, depth
Kolokacji: 3
(24) move, approach, driving
Kolokacji: 3
(26) front, presence
Kolokacji: 2
(28) formation, backfield
Kolokacji: 2
(31) starter, rookie
Kolokacji: 2
(35) barrier, stopper, barricade
Kolokacji: 3
(36) Smith, Williams
Kolokacji: 2
(38) ditch, trench, moat
Kolokacji: 3
1. defensive ditch = obronny rów defensive ditch
  • The soldiers quickly threw up a picket line and began to dig defensive trenches.
  • The remaining Iraqi forces abandoned their offensive and drove into defensive trenches.
  • Leaving the area south south west they came across evidence of defensive trenches being dug.
  • The tactic of a defensive trench was introduced by Salman the Persian.
  • He had volunteered with thirty others to man the defensive trench in the woods.
  • They were also slowed due to defensive trenches around the city that had been filled with flammable chemicals by retreating loyalist troops.
  • The attacking Iraqis halted the offensive and laid down fire from defensive trenches.
  • I asked, indicating a work gang apparently digging a defensive trench.
  • Lawton finally took the defensive trenches on the crater rim by storm.
  • Sergeant Ulrich took a detail through the southern segment of their defensive trench, but no luck.
3. defensive moat = obronna fosa defensive moat
(39) medicine, penalty
Kolokacji: 2
(41) record, signal, showing
Kolokacji: 3
(42) breakdown, victory, collapse
Kolokacji: 3
(43) problem, huddle
Kolokacji: 2
(45) standout, baseman
Kolokacji: 2
(46) call, reason, option
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + defensive
Kolokacji: 5
play defensive • sound defensive • feel defensive • become defensive • grow defensive
adverbio + defensive
Kolokacji: 13
purely defensive • somewhat defensive • strictly defensive • slightly defensive • essentially defensive • ...
defensive + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
defensive about • defensive in • defensive of

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