enfilade fire


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Related to enfilade fire: grazing fire, Plunging fire
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Noun1.enfilade fire - gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation
enfilade
gunfire, gunshot - the act of shooting a gun; "the gunfire endangered innocent bystanders"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
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The Syrians and the Fatah rebels occupied the high ground, allowing them to pour enfilade fire down the main street of the camp, where two thousand people still lived.
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Sometimes he can get tangled up in his upper-class vowels and mis-speak in a way which allows his enemies to open up the kind of enfilade fire which saw him thrown off the Tory frontbench where he sat as a "National Security" adviser - a position he held even under the last Labour government.
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The low hill on the left flank of the advancing troops now raked the open ground with enfilade fire from the machine-guns sited on the hill.
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