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| defend; act on the defensive; be on the defensive; stand on the defensive; be stand, act on the defensive; stand; defend oneself | |||
| defend oneself | |||
| be on one's heels (in a defensive position; from boxing, where a boxer might go back on his heels when he's defending himself, as opposed to being on his toes: In the early months of the war, with Ukraine's regular army on its heels, everyday Ukrainians filled the ranks of a partisan army that stopped an offensive by combined Russian-separatist forces. 4uzhoj) | |||
| make a stand; make resistance; offer resistance; put up resistance; resist; hold defensively | |||
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| defend; hold | |||
| conduct a defence; organize a defence; put up a defence | |||
| protect | |||
| defend (ся); maintain defense; stand on the defensive (ся); undertake the defense | |||
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| defensively | |||
| обороняться: 36 phrases in 6 subjects |
| Chess | 4 |
| Football | 2 |
| General | 10 |
| Idiomatic | 1 |
| Makarov | 5 |
| Military | 14 |