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encirclement::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | blockade |
| Type of | military action, action |
| Has types | military blockade, besieging, naval blockade, siege, beleaguering |
| Derivation | encircle |
Examples of encirclement
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Rebels said a column of vehicles tried to punch out of an encirclement at dawn.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The surprise encirclement put a devastating blow to the morale of the Cossacks.
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Hong Chengchou tried to break the encirclement for many times, yet always failed.
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The remnants of Burma Army broke out to the north, narrowly escaping encirclement.
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Russian hard-liners see the southern-rim thrust as a strategy of U.S. encirclement.
From the businessweek.com
The encirclement parent of A is the highest peak that is inside this other contour.
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Budapest's defenders asked permission to leave the city and escape the encirclement.
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Menaced with encirclement, Ambert had to retreat and rejoined Hoche's center column.
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The mere threat of encirclement, the army claims, frightened militants out of Mingora.
From the economist.com
- Blockade: a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
- Encirclement is a military term for the situation when a force or target is isolated and surrounded by enemy forces.
- The loss of freedom of maneuver to one force resulting from an enemy force's control of all routes of egress and reinforcement. (See also breakout and linkup.) See FMs 6-20, 7-20, 7-30, 17-95, 71-100, 71-123, and 100-5.
- An operation where one force loses it freedom of maneuver because an opposing force is able to isolate it by controlling all ground lines of communication (FM 3-0)
