offensive

Phonetic

US /əˈfensɪv/UK /əˈfensɪv/

Translations

ADJCausing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation., Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive., Having to do with play directed at scoring.
NOUNAn attack., The posture of attacking or being able to attack.

Variants

  • offensives: Plural

Examples

  • Ukraine's outgoing defence minister has said the country is anticipating a new Russian offensive later this month

    Source:www.bbc.com

  • UK, France, Canada threaten sanctions if Israel continues new offensive into Gaza.

    Source:edition.cnn.com

  • Fighting has been ongoing on Gaza for months, and the renewed offensive shows Israel’s challenges in achieving its goal of eliminating Hamas.

    Source:edition.cnn.com

  • It is programmed not to respond to offensive prompts and has filters to prevent it from sharing harmful, illegal, sexually explicit or personally identifiable information but "like any method these guardrails will occasionally fail", said Zoubin Ghahramani, vice president of Google Research

    Source:www.bbc.com

  • This means that authors can revert to an older version of the page should it be necessary because a mistake has been made , such as the content accidentally being deleted or the page has been vandalized to include offensive or malicious text or other inappropriate content

    Source:en.wikipedia.org

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