Sortie

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An armed attack, especially one made from a place surrounded by enemy forces.
  • n. A flight of a combat aircraft on a mission.
  • verb-intransitive. To go on a sortie.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An offensive military mission. Used originally to mean an attack from a fortress, but most commonly used today to describe a single mission by a military aircraft.
  • v. To sally.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A going forth; a sally; specifically, the issuing of a body of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers; an outrush of a beleaguered garrison.
  • n. Same as postlude.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
  • n. (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
  • Verb Form
    sortied    sortieing    sorties   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    action    military action    flying    flight   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sally    issue    scramble   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    corti    forty    shorty    sporty   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    foray    inroad    skirmish    largeur    counter-attack    counterstroke    onslaught    enterprize