firefight
[fahyuh r-fahyt]
- an exchange of gunfire between two opposing forces, especially a skirmish between military forces.
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What often is forgotten—and what Beck could probably stand to remember—is that the massacre was, technically, a firefight.
Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.
There is something about a firefight at night, something about the mechanical elegance of an M-60 machine gun.
The day after the assault, ISAF announced that forces had stumbled upon the dead women after a firefight with insurgents.
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The U.S. then contacted the Mexican marines, who did not hesitate, engaging Beltran and his gunmen in a 90-minute firefight.
firefight
- a brief small-scale engagement between opposing military ground forces using short-range light weapons
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