单词 | unflanked |
释义 | unflankedadj. (un- prefix1 2.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > [adjective] > defended > not defended strengthlessc1175 undefenced1451 unfenced1548 unflanked1553 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iii. f. 25 It was the thing that he doubted moste, that they..should inuade the open side of his battaille, whiche lay vnflancked towardes them. 1757 J. Home Douglas iii. iii. 37 Water-wafted armies, whose chief strength Lies in firm foot, unflank'd with warlike horse. 1870 Milit. Engineering I. v. 333 The points selected for assault should be, if possible, unflanked parts of the work. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1553 |
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