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How to pronounce blitzkrieg in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms blitz
Type of onrush, attack, onset, onslaught
Type Words
Type of war

Examples of blitzkrieg

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From the moment we arrived, we were engulfed in a blitzkrieg of efficient charm.
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The big crowd that had shorted it didn't expect such a blitzkrieg in just days.
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The executed included Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a proponent of armoured blitzkrieg.
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The ERR also operated in the early days of the blitzkrieg of the Low Countries.
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The prolonged resistance effectively disrupted the German plans of blitzkrieg.
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They had believed the idea of blitzkrieg was an unreliable bourgeois strategy.
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The Germans did not invent something called blitzkrieg in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Operation Barbarossa was planned as a blitzkrieg intended to last a few weeks.
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Successfully used the German tactic of armored blitzkrieg against the Germans.
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  • Blitz: a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment
  • Fight a quick and surprising war
  • Blitzkrieg (German, "lightning war") is an anglicized word describing all-mechanized force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery and air power, concentrating overwhelming force and rapid speed to break through enemy lines, and once the latter is broken, proceeding without regard to its ...
  • Blitzkrieg are a heavy metal band from Leicester formed in 1980, consisting of Brian Ross (vocals), Ken Johnson (guitar), Guy Laverick (guitar), Paul Brewis (bass) and Phil Brewis (drums). Their song "Blitzkrieg" has been covered by Metallica.
  • In chess, scholar's mate is the checkmate which occurs after the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Qxf7#. ...
  • Blitzkrieg, in comics, may refer to: *Blitzkrieg (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superhero *Blitzkrieg (DC Comics), a DC war comic series from 1970s
  • Blitzkrieg was an early strategic-level wargame first published in 1965 by the Avalon Hill Game Company. The game depicted a war between two fictional countries on the map of an imaginary continent. The level of military technology was that of the Second World War.
  • Blitzkrieg is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.
  • Blitzkrieg are an English punk rock band, based in Southport and formed in 1979.