Was heißt »Ab­wehr« auf Englisch?

Das Substantiv Ab­wehr lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • defence
  • defense

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Zehntes Spiel, eine weitere russische (Petroff) Abwehr, siebtes Unentschieden. Carlsen 6.5 - Nepo 3.5. Morgen, Donnerstag ist frei.

Tenth game, another Russian (Petroff) defense, seventh draw. Carlsen 6.5 - Nepo 3.5. Tomorrow, Thursday is a day off.

Die Abwehr wahrte eine weiße Weste.

The defence kept a clean sheet.

Trotz des raffinierten Angriffsspiels von City gelang es United mit einer verbissenen Abwehr, 0 : 0 unentschieden aus dem Spiel zu kommen.

Despite City's slick attacking play, United managed to see out a nil-nil draw with a display of dogged defending.

Impfungen simulieren eine Infektion, was das Immunsystem des Körpers zur Abwehr animiert.

Vaccines mimic an infection, which causes the body's immune system to mount a defense.

Synonyme

De­ckung:
cover
De­fen­si­ve:
defensive
Wi­der­stand:
resistance

Antonyme

An­griff:
attack
At­ta­cke:
attack
Of­fen­si­ve:
offensive

Englische Beispielsätze

  • As an allegory of war, chess is a game of attack and defense.

  • The Caro-Kann defense (1. e4 c6) is an opening used by major Grand Masters around the world.

  • We attempted to break the enemy's lines of defense.

  • Against a Petroff defense less skilfully played by Ian Nepomniachtchi, Magnus Carlsen took his second win in the FIDE-2021 World Championship match in Dubai. Now: Carlsen 5 - Nepo 3.

  • Our football team has a good defence.

  • The hapless defence failed to clear the ball, and John pounced to slot in his fifth goal of the season.

  • I shot Tom in self defense.

  • What can be said in his defence?

  • The defence counsel went on the counterattack.

  • The opposition minnows fought a desperate rearguard action in defence of their one-goal lead.

  • They claim that they acted in self defense.

  • Attack is the best form of defence.

  • You need to hire a criminal defense lawyer.

  • He trusted his defence lawyer.

  • I think Tom's anger is just a defense mechanism; I wouldn't take it personally if I were you.

  • Ignorance of the law is not accepted as a defence.

  • The defence attorney claimed that the police had coerced his client into confessing to the crime.

  • Tom wanted to be a criminal defense lawyer.

  • The term "ministry of defense" is considered by many to be a euphemism for what was earlier called the "ministry of war".

  • Fever is one of the body's defence mechanisms.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

Kampf:
battle
combat
fight

Untergeordnete Begriffe

Flug­ab­wehr:
air defense
Luft­ab­wehr:
air defence

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Abwehr. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: Abwehr. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 10551044, 11566787, 11569458, 11724109, 10099870, 10283108, 10451875, 10546139, 10741454, 10760175, 10841977, 10894607, 11801495, 11816536, 7473012, 12194862, 6092072, 5966115, 5614589, 4458513, 3988730, 2958459, 2813390 & 2674332. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR