HARASSING FIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harassing fire mean? 

• HARASSING FIRE (noun)
  The noun HARASSING FIRE has 1 sense:

1. fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale

  Familiarity information: HARASSING FIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARASSING FIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("harassing fire" is a kind of...):

fire; firing (the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy)