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Covering Fire

Definition: Covering Fire

Covering Fire

Noun

1. Fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations; "artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Covering Fire

Synonym: cover (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Covering Fire

English words defined with "covering fire": cover, covering ♦ shielding. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Covering Fire

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
covering fire resistant wall	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Covering Fire

Language		Translations for "covering fire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		tûztámadás, fedezõ tûz, biztosító tûz. (various references)

Pig Latin		overingcay irefay

Swedish		eldunderstöd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Covering Fire

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-g-i-i-n-o-r-r-v"
	-2 letters: recovering.
	-3 letters: foreigner, receiving, reinforce, revoicing.
	-4 letters: confrere, converge, covering, enforcer, erigeron, erogenic, fevering, fingerer, forgiven, forgiver, fringier, inferior, overnice, overrife, refiring, revering, riverine, verifier.
	-5 letters: cervine, coifing, coinfer, conifer, coreign, cornier, corvine, coverer, cringer, eirenic, enforce, feigner, fernier, fiercer, fierier, forcing, foreign, forever, forgive, freeing, generic, griever, ignorer, invoice, nervier, oneiric, onerier, orifice.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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