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sandbagged

vb. (en-past of: sandbag)

WordNet
sandbag
  1. n. a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast

  2. v. treat harshly or unfairly

  3. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone" [syn: dragoon, railroad]

  4. hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag [syn: stun]

  5. downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling

  6. protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up; "The residents sandbagged the beach front"

  7. [also: sandbagging, sandbagged]

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Usage examples of "sandbagged".

He saw light field artillery in sandbagged em placed detachments, together with mortars in their redoubts an armed with RPG sockets, the mobile hand-held stalwarts of the guerrilla arsenal: All the troops he saw seemed to be cheerful and of high morale, well fed and equipped.

With the expertise of long practice, she spun Claudia around and thrust her face hard against the sandbagged wall of the bunker, snapping the manacles on one wrist as she did so, then pulling both claudia,s arms behind her back and locking the second cuff on her other wrist.

Beyond the outer defensive lines the gunships were laagered in separate sandbagged emplacements.

Alphonso went through the plan step by step, illustrating wi lo red pebbles how the missile teams would move into position and he in readiness five hundred meters from the perimeter of the gunship laager, two teams confronting each sandbagged emplacement.

Suddenly Sean was there again, and even at that distance he appeared a heroic figure, balancing easily on the sandbagged parapet in the ruddy glow of the flames.

The workshops and fuel dumps were heavily sandbagged and covered with camouflage netting.

Just ahead he made out the long, drooping rotors of a Hind protruding above the sandbagged wall of its emplacement.

The Russian squealed shrilly as Sean used them as a handle to drag him backward and threw him against the sandbagged side wall of the emplacement.

Sean lined up the pilot, the flight engineer, and the three members of the ground crew against the sandbagged wall.

China took her arm and led her down the steps of the sandbagged, camouflaged dugout.

Then she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and leaned her forehead against the sandbagged wall.

Chan Skrithik and Markan watched them go by, then followed them silently into the sandbagged bunker.

Behind him a trench maze zigzagged down to a line of four sandbagged pits.

A wide barricade 01 razor-wire fringed the inner edge of a cleared hundred-meter kill-zone, and heavily sandbagged weapon towers rose at regular intervals.

At the end of the jetty was a sandbagged emplacement topped by some rounded buttons that were the helmeted heads of the Home Guard.