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Defilade \De`fi*lade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defiladed; p. pr. & vb. n. Defilading.] [Cf. F. d['e]filer to defile, and d['e]filade act of defiling. See 1st Defile.] (Mil.) To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
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vb. (en-past of: defilade)
Usage examples of "defiladed".
They fire from defiladed positions, raking my entire port flank along a deadly diagonal line.
Even in a small, deep, protective hole, even in a defiladed tank, that artillery fire would be terrifying, enough to distract the guided-weapons crews, enough to rattle communications men, perhaps enough to impede the officers there.
The Russians had defiladed tanks on their flanks, and in front of them was a village bristling with antitank missiles: the German colonel had set a moving ambush, and the pursuing Russians had fallen into it.
He watched after the rear view mirror, with the hope to see a truck or some other vehicle, but almost there was no transit in the defiladed road with snow.
A celebration, drunkards died in the way of return of, handling to one hundred fifty kilometers per hour by a defiladed road with snow.
Stay defiladed from the machine-guns but if anything comes out of that pass I want to know about it.