encirclement
Noun
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.004
Noun
encirclement
- The act of encircling or the state of being encircled
- (military) The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 9:
- Not only did it give the Russians an abiding fear of encirclement, whether by nomadic hordes or by nuclear-missile sites, but it also launched them on their relentless drive eastwards and southwards into Asia, and eventually collision with the British in India.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 9:
- Russian: окруже́ние
- Russian: окруже́ние
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.004