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sortie
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Sortie
(gcide) | Sortie \Sor"tie\ (?; 277), n. [F., fr. sortir to go out, to
issue, probably fr. L. sortus, for surrectus, p. p. of
surgere to raise up, to rise up. See Source.] (Mil.)
The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a
besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.
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sortie
(wn) | sortie
n 1: a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from
their position [syn: sortie, sally]
2: (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in
a military operation) |
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Destructive sorties
(gcide) | Destructive \De*struc"tive\, a. [L. destructivus: cf. F.
destructif.]
Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or
devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil;
mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as,
intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are
destructive to the morals of youth.
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Time's destructive power. --Wordsworth.
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Destructive distillation. See Distillation.
Destructive sorties(Logic), a process of reasoning which
involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent
propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a
species of reductio ad absurdum. --Whately.
Syn: Mortal; deadly; poisonous; fatal; ruinous; malignant;
baleful; pernicious; mischievous.
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sortie
(wn) | sortie
n 1: a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from
their position [syn: sortie, sally]
2: (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in
a military operation) |
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