Enfilade

Quick meaning: Enfilade is a noun meaning A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Gunfire directed along the length of a target.
2. (architecture) A series of doors that provide a vista when open.
3. (transitive) To rake (something) with gunfire.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To be directed toward (something) like enfilading gunfire.
5. (architecture, transitive) To arrange (rooms or other structures) in a row.

Example Sentences

A great quantity of artillery was placed upon the eminence, so as to batter and enfilade the left of their intrenchments.

He killed the machine gun crew, and without further orders pushed on and enfiladed a ditch from which three officers and 160 men subsequently surrendered.

It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.

Uncle Charles, a truly unparalleled slinger of shit, is laying down an enfilade of same, trying to mollify men who seem way more in need of a good brow-mopping than I.

Word Forms

• enfilades
• enfilading
• enfiladed

Synonyms for enfilade

Depending on context, synonyms include flank.

Antonyms for enfilade

Common opposites include defilade.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lines, envelopment, defilement, formation, array, traverse.

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