Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

took the offensive

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English

Syllables
took the of-fen-sive
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past of take the offensive

Questions

What does took the offensive mean?
simple past of take the offensive

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