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What does enfiladed mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of enfilade
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The belated arrival of the Glengarries was pre-empted when they were enfiladed by the riflemen and forced to join in the general retreat.
The slopes were swept by machine-gun and rifle fire, and the beds of the wadis were enfiladed.
From this point, either the enemy's or our line could be enfiladed.
On 'B' Company's front another company was allowed into an enfiladed ravine and then decimated by crossing machine-gun fire.
Flanked by sheer precipices, it was reached only by two narrow paths enfiladed by watch-towers, eyries, and batteries of boulders.
The overall design of each battery was that of an irregular pentagon surrounded by a deep ditch, which was enfiladed by three caponiers and a counter-scarp gallery.

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