defensive strategy



diversion, encirclement, feint, fire tactics, infiltration, investment, shock tactics, strategy, tactics ,









   stalwart - Atlas, Conservative, Democrat, Goliath, Hercules, Republican, Samson, Superman, Tarzan, Titan, Tory, Whig, a man, abettor, able-bodied,

   golden - achingly sweet, advantageous, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, appealing, auric, auspicious, beige, benign, benignant, beyond price, blessed, blissful, blond, brass,

   mass production - assembly line, manufacture, production line ,

   lap robe - bedclothes, bedding, bedspread, blanket, case, clothes, comfort, comforter, counterpane, cover, eiderdown, linen, pillowcase, quilt, robe,

   harebrained - absurd, adventurous, arbitrary, audacious, balmy, bold, brainless, capricious, cranky, crazy, crotchety, daredevil, daring, death-defying, dizzy,

   crucifix - Holy Grail, ankh, ark, beads, candle, censer, chaplet, chi, chi-rho, criss-cross, cross, crossbones, cruciform, cruet, crux,

   mental ratio - IQ, apprehension, calibrate, calibre, capacity, comprehension, conception, ideation, intellect, intellectuality, intelligence quotient, knowledge, mentality, rationality, sanity,

   in conformity with - according to, adapted, after, by, consistent with, faithfully, in harmony, in keeping with, in line with, in step with, obediently, per, proper, suitable for ,

   annihilated - dead, defunct, done for, down the drain, expired, extinct, gone, kaput, no more, vanished ,

   mount up to - add up to, afford, aggregate, aggregate to, amount to, bring, bring in, come to, come up to, comprise, contain, cost, fetch, number, reckon up to,