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sortie
[sawr-tee]
noun
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
a body of troops involved in such a movement.
the flying of an airplane on a combat mission.
verb (used without object)
to go on a sortie; sally forth.
sortie
/ ˈɔːɪ /
noun
(of troops, etc) the act of emerging from a contained or besieged position
the troops doing this
an operational flight made by one aircraft
a short or relatively short return trip
verb
(intr) to make a sortie
Word History and Origins
Origin of sortie1
Word History and Origins
Origin of sortie1
Example Sentences
The chocolate-covered marshmallow treats had apparently been all the rage prior to this - being eaten by crewmen as they flew nuclear bombers on long training sorties at the height of the Cold War.
River are all part of the perfect Sunday sortie for the ‘Animal Control’ star.
But this time the Russian plane wasn’t on a bombing sortie.
"When Russian forces deployed to Syria in 2015, they flew almost 300 sorties in two weeks, and that was before base expansion," she wrote on X.
The first aerial sorties went up at midnight on Bastille Day, July 14.
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