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- A crowd control technique, used by police, where a hostile group of protesters or rioters are surrounded and not allowed to disperse, sometimes with the use of temporary fencing to corral and isolate portions of the group.
- The situation where water gets trapped in the heat exchanger of a boiler (e.g. due to limescale build-up), resulting in knocking sounds as it turns into expanding steam.
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- (video games) Initialism of crowd control.
- (sound engineering, technology) Initialism of compact cassette.
- (medicine) Initialism of chief complaint.
- Initialism of cricket club.
- (music, MIDI) Initialism of control change.
- (Canada) Companion of the Order of Canada.
- Initialism of cycling club.
- Initialism of credit card.
- (television) Initialism of closed caption.
- Initialism of constructive criticism.
- (military) Abbreviation of cruiser, a type of warship.
- (military) Initialism of company commander.
- (knitting) Initialism of contrasting colour.
- (US, military, historical) The US Navy hull classification symbol for a battlecruiser; the only such ships authorized by Congress were of the Lexington-class, which were cancelled under the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty with two being converted to aircraft carriers.
- Initialism of cross country.
- Initialism of carbon capture.
- Initialism of carbon copy.
- (cosmology) Initialism of cosmological constant.
- Initialism of City College.
- (SI) Initialism of cubic centimetre.
- Initialism of community college.
- Initialism of cryptocurrency.
- (weather) Initialism of cirrocumulus.
- (medicine) Initialism of cervical cancer.
- Initialism of courtesy copy.
- (politics) Initialism of Central Committee.
- Initialism of Circuit Court.
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- (philosophy) Initialism of principle of alternate possibilities.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of past active participle.
- (medicine) Acronym of positive airway pressure.
- (cosmology, epistemology) Initialism of participatory anthropic principle.
- (organic chemistry) polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
- (medicine) Initialism of prostatic acid phosphatase.
- (networking) Initialism of password authentication protocol.
- (by extension) A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of present active participle.
verb
noun
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- A crowd control barrier.
- A violent crowding.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- (slang) A group or gang.
- a dense crowd of people
- the act of crushing
- leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- temporary love of an adolescent
verb
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- crush or bruise
- make ineffective
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
- break into small pieces
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- humiliate or depress completely
noun
- the act of repressing; control by holding down
- a state of forcible subjugation
- (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
- (psychology) The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
- The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
adj
- Intended to deter attack.
- (cricket) Of a bowling or fielding tactic designed to prevent the other side from scoring runs; of a batting tactic designed to prevent being out.
- (chiefly sports) Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack.
- In a state or posture of defense.
- Intended for defence; protective.
- Performed so as to minimise risk.
- Displaying an inordinate sensitivity to criticism or intrusion; oversensitive; thin-skinned.
- attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
- intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack
noun
noun
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- a very troublesome child
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
adj
noun
- A strategy for achieving political or military control.
- (computer science) An algorithm design technique that solves a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems are trivial.
- A phacoemulsification technique in which the nucleus is grooved and divided into halves.
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verb
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- Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”).
- (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive.
- (military) A type of encirclement.
- A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.
- (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
- (cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
- An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
- (music) A kettledrum.
- The quantity held by a kettle.
- (slang) A watch (timepiece).
- (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of kettle of fish.
- A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
- the quantity a kettle will hold
- (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
- a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
- a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid
noun
adj
verb
noun
- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
- the failure to develop some part or organ
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
- The state of being suppressed.
- (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
- The act or instance of suppressing.
- (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
noun
- a public act of violence by an unruly mob
- a joke that seems extremely funny
- a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
- a state of disorder involving group violence
- Wanton or unrestrained behavior or emotion.
- (colloquial, uncountable) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
- A tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by a large group of people, often involving violence or damage to property.
- (figurative) A wide and unconstrained variety.
verb
noun
- the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
- (historical) The system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.
- The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.
- (by extension) The use of intimidation or bullying tactics.
noun
- The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).
- An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
- The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
- using force to cause something to occur
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
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noun
- a public disturbance
- a single distinct event
- (countable, uncountable) An event or occurrence.
- (often used in apposition) An event affecting an aircraft, usually a plane crash.
- An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
- A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
adj
- falling or striking of light rays on something
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
- (law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
- (physics, of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface.
- Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
- Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
- (mathematics) In a relation of incidence
- Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
noun
- (countable, military) Initialism of muzzleloader.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of machine learning.
- (countable, computing) Initialism of mailing list.
- (military) Initialism of munitions list, a category of controlled goods under the Wassenaar Arrangement.
- (uncountable, sciences) Initialism of maximum likelihood.
- (slang, manga, anime) Abbreviation of male lead.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of my love.
- (countable, Marxism) Initialism of Marxist-Leninist.
- (countable, surface chemistry) Initialism of monolayer.
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- (Southeast Asia, colloquial) Abbreviation of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.
- (linguistics) Initialism of Medieval Latin.
- (computing) Initialism of Markup Language.
- (Marxism) Initialism of Marxism-Leninism.
- (computer languages) Initialism of MetaLanguage (“the ML programming language”).
- Abbreviation of Meghalaya: a state of India.
- (linguistics) Initialism of Middle Latin.
noun
name
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- Something used to oppose attacks.
- (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
- (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
- The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
- An argument in support or justification of something.
- Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
- the defendant and their legal advisors collectively
- (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
- a structure used to defend against attack
- the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
- an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
- protection from harm
- (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against them
- the justification for some act or belief
- the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
verb
- bring under control by force or authority
- hold within limits and control
- make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- correct by punishment or discipline
- put down by force or intimidation
- (transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
- (transitive) To bring (a country) under control by force.
verb
- bring under control by force or authority
- lessen to the point of stopping
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- put out of one's consciousness
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
- To stop a flow or stream.
- (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
- (military) To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
- To prevent publication.
- (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
- (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
- To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
noun
- dominance through threat of punishment and violence
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
- an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government.
- the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy.
- Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
- (theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
- (political science, sociology) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism.
- (philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
- (rare) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
noun
adj
adv
name
phrase
noun
- A crowd control technique, used by police, where a hostile group of protesters or rioters are surrounded and not allowed to disperse, sometimes with the use of temporary fencing to corral and isolate portions of the group.
- The situation where water gets trapped in the heat exchanger of a boiler (e.g. due to limescale build-up), resulting in knocking sounds as it turns into expanding steam.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (video games) Initialism of crowd control.
- (sound engineering, technology) Initialism of compact cassette.
- (medicine) Initialism of chief complaint.
- Initialism of cricket club.
- (music, MIDI) Initialism of control change.
- (Canada) Companion of the Order of Canada.
- Initialism of cycling club.
- Initialism of credit card.
- (television) Initialism of closed caption.
- Initialism of constructive criticism.
- (military) Abbreviation of cruiser, a type of warship.
- (military) Initialism of company commander.
- (knitting) Initialism of contrasting colour.
- (US, military, historical) The US Navy hull classification symbol for a battlecruiser; the only such ships authorized by Congress were of the Lexington-class, which were cancelled under the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty with two being converted to aircraft carriers.
- Initialism of cross country.
- Initialism of carbon capture.
- Initialism of carbon copy.
- (cosmology) Initialism of cosmological constant.
- Initialism of City College.
- (SI) Initialism of cubic centimetre.
- Initialism of community college.
- Initialism of cryptocurrency.
- (weather) Initialism of cirrocumulus.
- (medicine) Initialism of cervical cancer.
- Initialism of courtesy copy.
- (politics) Initialism of Central Committee.
- Initialism of Circuit Court.
adj
name
verb
noun
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- A crowd control barrier.
- A violent crowding.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- (slang) A group or gang.
- a dense crowd of people
- the act of crushing
- leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- temporary love of an adolescent
verb
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- crush or bruise
- make ineffective
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
- break into small pieces
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- humiliate or depress completely
noun
- the act of repressing; control by holding down
- a state of forcible subjugation
- (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
- (psychology) The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
- The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
noun
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- a very troublesome child
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
adj
noun
- A strategy for achieving political or military control.
- (computer science) An algorithm design technique that solves a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems are trivial.
- A phacoemulsification technique in which the nucleus is grooved and divided into halves.
proverb
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
- the failure to develop some part or organ
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
- The state of being suppressed.
- (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
- The act or instance of suppressing.
- (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
noun
- a public act of violence by an unruly mob
- a joke that seems extremely funny
- a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
- a state of disorder involving group violence
- Wanton or unrestrained behavior or emotion.
- (colloquial, uncountable) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
- A tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by a large group of people, often involving violence or damage to property.
- (figurative) A wide and unconstrained variety.
verb
noun
- the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
- (historical) The system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.
- The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.
- (by extension) The use of intimidation or bullying tactics.
noun
- The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).
- An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
- The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
- using force to cause something to occur
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
noun
- a public disturbance
- a single distinct event
- (countable, uncountable) An event or occurrence.
- (often used in apposition) An event affecting an aircraft, usually a plane crash.
- An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
- A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
adj
- falling or striking of light rays on something
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
- (law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
- (physics, of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface.
- Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
- Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
- (mathematics) In a relation of incidence
- Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
noun
- (countable, military) Initialism of muzzleloader.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of machine learning.
- (countable, computing) Initialism of mailing list.
- (military) Initialism of munitions list, a category of controlled goods under the Wassenaar Arrangement.
- (uncountable, sciences) Initialism of maximum likelihood.
- (slang, manga, anime) Abbreviation of male lead.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of my love.
- (countable, Marxism) Initialism of Marxist-Leninist.
- (countable, surface chemistry) Initialism of monolayer.
name
- (Southeast Asia, colloquial) Abbreviation of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.
- (linguistics) Initialism of Medieval Latin.
- (computing) Initialism of Markup Language.
- (Marxism) Initialism of Marxism-Leninism.
- (computer languages) Initialism of MetaLanguage (“the ML programming language”).
- Abbreviation of Meghalaya: a state of India.
- (linguistics) Initialism of Middle Latin.
noun
name
noun
- Something used to oppose attacks.
- (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
- (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
- The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
- An argument in support or justification of something.
- Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
- the defendant and their legal advisors collectively
- (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
- a structure used to defend against attack
- the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
- an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
- protection from harm
- (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against them
- the justification for some act or belief
- the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
noun
- dominance through threat of punishment and violence
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
- an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government.
- the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy.
- Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
- (theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
- (political science, sociology) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism.
- (philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
- (rare) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”).
- (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive.
- (military) A type of encirclement.
- A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.
- (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
- (cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
- An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
- (music) A kettledrum.
- The quantity held by a kettle.
- (slang) A watch (timepiece).
- (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of kettle of fish.
- A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
- the quantity a kettle will hold
- (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
- a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
- a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid
verb
- bring under control by force or authority
- hold within limits and control
- make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- correct by punishment or discipline
- put down by force or intimidation
- (transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
- (transitive) To bring (a country) under control by force.
verb
- bring under control by force or authority
- lessen to the point of stopping
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- put out of one's consciousness
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
- To stop a flow or stream.
- (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
- (military) To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
- To prevent publication.
- (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
- (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
- To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
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adj
- Intended to deter attack.
- (cricket) Of a bowling or fielding tactic designed to prevent the other side from scoring runs; of a batting tactic designed to prevent being out.
- (chiefly sports) Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack.
- In a state or posture of defense.
- Intended for defence; protective.
- Performed so as to minimise risk.
- Displaying an inordinate sensitivity to criticism or intrusion; oversensitive; thin-skinned.
- attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
- intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack