| 单词 | intrenchment |
| 释义 | intrenchment (once / 4080 pages) n WORD FAMILY intrenchment: intrenchments USAGE EXAMPLESDisconcerted by the defeat of Purdy, Hampton ordered a retreat, without making any attempt to carry the British intrenchments. Headley, Joel Tyler, The Second War with England, Vol. 1...(2012) To the farmers, merchants, mechanics, and youths, who lay within the American intrenchments, the scene and the thoughts it awakened were new. Headley, Joel Tyler, The Second War with England, Vol. 2...(2012) As they advanced the fire of the enemy was principally delivered from the front of the fort and the rifle intrenchments in the scrub. Hamilton, J. Angus, The Siege of Mafeking (1900)(2012) n an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches Syn|Hypo|Hyper entrenchment retrenchment entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense fortification, munition defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it |
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