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A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
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encirclement
Word definitions for encirclement in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy [syn: blockade ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Encirclement is a military term for the situation when a force or target is isolated and surrounded by enemy forces. This situation is highly dangerous for the encircled force: at the strategic level, because it cannot receive supplies or reinforcements, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1809, from encircle + -ment .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of encircle or the state of being encircled 2 (context military English) The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it
Usage examples of encirclement.
That nest of corpulent vipers had long been used to taking their ease, content with their delving into their store of old spelling and encirclement.
Suddenly it all made sense, this mad rush to throw beachheads and encirclement forces at the Human worlds.
The fourth and fifth Zhirrzh beachheads were now established on Human-Conqueror worlds, with encirclement forces on guard overhead.
Alesia, it was fenced in between two separate encirclements of fortifications, identical but mirror images of each other.
Banner headlines bawled of Allied breakthroughs in Morocco, the flight of Rommel, the encirclement of the Germans at Stalingrad.
She took the pot from the protecting encirclement of Sebell's curved fingers and carefully upended it on the hearth, her fingers cushioning the egg until the sand spilled away from it.
But the German nation, with its strong instinct for survival and growth, had time and again rallied and thrown off foreign encirclements and yokes.
Hordes were captured, but more hordes abandoned tanks and guns to slip through our encirclements in the night.
We then exploit that benefit to perform encirclements and flanking maneuvers on the purely western forces.
Political regions were delineated by subtle encirclements of color the Core systems, the Outer Rim Territories, Wild Space, the Unknown Regions.
Political regions were delineated by subtle encirclements of color: the Core systems, the Outer Rim Territories, Wild Space, the Unknown Regions.
Hunlaki admired the riders, though the Heruls, in their vaster numbers, with their better mounts, bred for centuries for the chase and war, their superb skills, of horsemanship and war, honed by centuries of revered tradition, their swiftness, their forced marches, their encirclements, had defeated them.
The rallies and the feints, the diversions and encirclements all became one confusion.
The gobs would be watching for an encirclement, and there were certain key spots for this.
But into that din and encirclement Goll pressed and ventured, steady as a rock in water, agile as a creature of the sea, and when one of the combatants retreated it was the hag that gave backwards.