enfilade

Speech parts

1. enfilade - Noun

2. enfilade - Verb

Meaning

A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.

A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.

To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

enfilade fire cannon crusader fire drill pepper broadside cross bomb shell crossing battery crossed discharge bore
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Antonyms

prevent accept improve secure agree delay
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Hypernyms

gunshot rake gunfire

Derivatives

enfiladed enfilading

Anagrams

alfenide

Examples

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room. James Fenton

Close letter words and terms

Enfield Lock enfierce enfierced enfilade fire enfile enfiled