enfilade
enfilades
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present tense formof enfilade (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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So necessity, the mother of invention, suggested to him a formation which poured something like two crossing enfilades into the head of the cavalry column.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
The salient shuts in the end of the valley and enfilades it.
From Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 by John Masefield
The trench enfilades the valley beyond, and the valley is covered with barbed-wire and gun-pits.
From With the French in France and Salonika by Richard Harding Davis
Everything is jumbled under this terrible fire which enfilades from all sides.
From Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The next and still more improved form of work is the bastioned fort, which consists of projecting bastions at the corners, the fire from which enfilades the ditches.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
