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Definition of outflank in English: outflankverb aʊtˈflaŋkˌaʊtˈflæŋk [with object]1Move round the side of (an enemy) so as to outmanoeuvre them. 侧翼包抄(敌人) the Germans had sought to outflank them from the north-east 德国人企图从东北方向侧翼包抄他们。 Example sentencesExamples - In this way they hoped to prevent the enemy from outflanking them.
- The side on an offensive should try to envelop or to outflank the strong points and attack them simultaneously from the front, at the flanks and in the rear.
- If the group is staggered or further spread out so you can't outflank them to the side, you have to become especially evasive.
- His squadron was now racing back through the Dominion battle group to engage the Alliance fleet moving to outflank.
- Fifteen hundred troops were landed to outflank the forts.
- They were under orders to circle south and east to surround Paris and outflank the Allied armies, ending the war within six weeks.
- And it was the Japanese, too, who achieved the most astounding military victory in Malaya in 1942 with the assistance of the bike, which their army used to outflank the ponderous British forces.
- The purpose was to break the stabilized situation by outflanking besieged Madrid with an Italian motorized corps from the north and then linking up with nationalist forces.
- But if you don't have the military forces to win, you've got to outflank them, with strategic defense.
- But the important thing was to outflank the enemy.
- But finding his army outflanked by Cromwell, he moved south in August, making for the old royalist strongholds of Wales and the west midlands.
- In ancient times, the wedge was used to allow a formation to rapidly change directions and outflank an opponent.
- Late in November 1950, they attacked the weaker South Korean units, drove them back, and partially outflanked the neighboring and suddenly vulnerable U.N. troops.
- As each side tried to outflank the other, a ‘race to the sea’ developed and this meant that huge trench systems took shape from the Swiss border through all of northern France.
- Static warfare prevented observation of anything beyond the front line by ground forces, which could not hope to outflank the enemy to observe unseen.
- ‘We're going to outflank the enemy and catch them by surprise,’ she told them.
- It was designed to deliver a frontal strike and to create a chance to outflank the enemy's strong points.
Synonyms circumvent, bypass, shake off, throw off, get around - 1.1 Outwit.
〈喻〉智胜,在谋略上胜过 an attempt to outflank the opposition 以谋略击败反对派的企图。 Example sentencesExamples - But most of the other attempts to outflank fashion end up as commentaries which have much less power than the commercially honed objects from which they attempt to distance themselves.
- The promotion was an attempt to outflank its rival, which was winning over viewers by hiring younger, more attractive presenters.
- He has so far cleverly outwitted and outflanked this attempt to marginalize him on the political stage.
- His call to buy more shares and move away from residential property has been labelled an attempt to outflank political opponents on the right.
- One such coalition in Oxford resulted in them being outflanked on the left by New Labour after the predictable round of compromises made because of budgetary restraints.
Rhymesankh, bank, blank, clank, crank, dank, drank, embank, flank, franc, frank, hank, lank, outrank, Planck, plank, point-blank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank Definition of outflank in US English: outflankverbˌoutˈflaNGkˌaʊtˈflæŋk [with object]1Move around the side of (an enemy) so as to outmaneuver them. 侧翼包抄(敌人) the Germans had sought to outflank them from the northeast 德国人企图从东北方向侧翼包抄他们。 Example sentencesExamples - Static warfare prevented observation of anything beyond the front line by ground forces, which could not hope to outflank the enemy to observe unseen.
- They were under orders to circle south and east to surround Paris and outflank the Allied armies, ending the war within six weeks.
- But finding his army outflanked by Cromwell, he moved south in August, making for the old royalist strongholds of Wales and the west midlands.
- ‘We're going to outflank the enemy and catch them by surprise,’ she told them.
- But the important thing was to outflank the enemy.
- The side on an offensive should try to envelop or to outflank the strong points and attack them simultaneously from the front, at the flanks and in the rear.
- As each side tried to outflank the other, a ‘race to the sea’ developed and this meant that huge trench systems took shape from the Swiss border through all of northern France.
- In this way they hoped to prevent the enemy from outflanking them.
- It was designed to deliver a frontal strike and to create a chance to outflank the enemy's strong points.
- Late in November 1950, they attacked the weaker South Korean units, drove them back, and partially outflanked the neighboring and suddenly vulnerable U.N. troops.
- But if you don't have the military forces to win, you've got to outflank them, with strategic defense.
- The purpose was to break the stabilized situation by outflanking besieged Madrid with an Italian motorized corps from the north and then linking up with nationalist forces.
- If the group is staggered or further spread out so you can't outflank them to the side, you have to become especially evasive.
- Fifteen hundred troops were landed to outflank the forts.
- And it was the Japanese, too, who achieved the most astounding military victory in Malaya in 1942 with the assistance of the bike, which their army used to outflank the ponderous British forces.
- His squadron was now racing back through the Dominion battle group to engage the Alliance fleet moving to outflank.
- In ancient times, the wedge was used to allow a formation to rapidly change directions and outflank an opponent.
Synonyms circumvent, bypass, shake off, throw off, get around - 1.1 Outwit.
〈喻〉智胜,在谋略上胜过 an attempt to outflank the opposition 以谋略击败反对派的企图。 Example sentencesExamples - But most of the other attempts to outflank fashion end up as commentaries which have much less power than the commercially honed objects from which they attempt to distance themselves.
- The promotion was an attempt to outflank its rival, which was winning over viewers by hiring younger, more attractive presenters.
- He has so far cleverly outwitted and outflanked this attempt to marginalize him on the political stage.
- One such coalition in Oxford resulted in them being outflanked on the left by New Labour after the predictable round of compromises made because of budgetary restraints.
- His call to buy more shares and move away from residential property has been labelled an attempt to outflank political opponents on the right.
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