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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
defilade .
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Examples
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So that if people defiladed, the government will be on the hook to make good.
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That is, a flying disk that will "locate defiladed combatants in complex urban terrain" and annihilate them using a bunker-buster warhead.
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There was even a small depression, so they were almost defiladed.
Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007
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"So there you sit twiddling your thumbs, with hull defiladed."
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"Get your hull defiladed, Sergeant!" shouted Krasnoy urgently.
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"So there you sit twiddling your thumbs, with hull defiladed."
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"Get your hull defiladed, Sergeant!" shouted Krasnoy urgently.
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In backing out of defiladed position the tank threw a track.
Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003
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From our defiladed position Staff Sergeant Skiba's tank fired on several machine-gun nests from which fire was visible, then picked up a log emplacement located at extreme top of hill on our right and fired several rounds of 75mm.
Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003
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Staff Sergeant Skiba's tank drove around the obstacles to the left and Sergeant Call to the right, and took up a defiladed position behind the bank approximately one hundred yards apart.
Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003
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