Converse of object

• fight: I will protect any commander who exceeds our usual restraint in the choice and severity of the means he adopts whilst fighting partisans.

• join: However, the more civilians were targeted, the more people joined the partisans.

• work: Genuine working class partisans want to see that vanguard organized.

Adjective modifier

• Yugoslav: During World War Two he served as a full Colonel with the Yugoslav partisans, retiring to his family home in Somerset in 1946.

• communist: The First Republic was born from below under the pressure of anti-fascist republicanism and the communist partisans.

• Italian: They were captured at Lake Como by Italian partisans on 27th April, 1945.

Modifying Another Word

• overtly: We have laws in the UK against the sort of overtly partisan broadcasting that Fox are often accused of.

• fiercely: Cardiff, roared on by a fiercely partisan crowd, refused to bow.

• politically: The current Bush administration has attempted tax reform with mixed and politically partisan results.

• highly: The whole process showed the Parliament using its powers in a highly partisan way in order to thwart the Council of Ministers's choice.

• too: Too partisan a summing up is not always clever - at the very least it can annoy the Chamber.

• very: Currently, the mood on Capitol Hill seems very partisan, with each party criticizing the other's proposal.

Modifies a noun

• warfare: By May 1941 partisan warfare had broken out throughout what was formerly Yugoslavia.

• crowd: Cardiff, roared on by a fiercely partisan crowd, refused to bow.

• politics: CUSU has a duty to rise above partisan politics.

• stance: Schools, however, should ensure that strongly partisan political stances are avoided.

• fighter: Tito returned to Yugoslavia and helped establish the partisan resistance fighters.

• bias: But the basic analysis shows no partisan bias and contains some remarkable findings.

Noun used with modifier

• class: Genuine working class partisans want to see that vanguard organized.