"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 • ...

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 • ...

Kolokacji: 1

Grup znaczeniowych: 4

(1) purely, strictly

Kolokacji: 2

1. purely defensive = wyłącznie obronny purely defensive

"This or any other system is purely defensive in nature," he said.
It was a purely defensive reaction, to keep out anything else that might harm them.
She didn't know how much longer they could keep this on a purely defensive footing.
From there, we can carry out a purely defensive operation.
Even if we'd had the ships, we were fighting a purely defensive war.
"This is a purely defensive merger," said a senior executive at a leading American bank.
He went into a purely defensive stance and waited for the man to act.
But it said that the new Arab force would be purely defensive in nature.
Scientists have long theorized that the light is purely defensive in nature.
The army that had invaded France in 1914 was now fighting a purely defensive war.

2. strictly defensive = ściśle obronny strictly defensive

(2) somewhat, slightly, overly

Kolokacji: 3

Kolokacji: 6

(4) fiercely, extremely

Kolokacji: 2

defensive + preposición

Kolokacji: 3

defensive about • defensive in • defensive of

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