Defending and Proactive

Defending

Defending adjective - Attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring.

Proactive and defending are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Proactive" instead an adjective "Defending".

Proactive

Proactive adjective - (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens.
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Defending and proactive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defending" instead an adjective "Proactive".

Both words in one sentence

  • Militant pacifist, empathic to a ridiculous degree, incapable of defending itself, and generally utterly useless till the main cast reunites it somehow with its evil, depraved and (of course) effective and proactive side.
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