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Definition of Sortie

1. Noun. A military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position.

2. Noun. (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation).

Definition of Sortie

1. n. The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.

Definition of Sortie

1. Noun. (military) An offensive military mission. Used originally to mean an attack from a fortress, but most commonly used today to describe a single mission by a military aircraft. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To sally. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sortie

1. to attack suddenly from a defensive position [v -TIED, -TIEING, -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sortie

sortal sortals sortance sortances sortase sortases sortation sortations sorte sorted

sorted oneself out sorted out sorter sorters sortes sortie (current term) sortied sortieing sorties sortilege

sortileges sortilegious sorting sorting algorithm sorting algorithms sorting oneself out sorting out sorting program sortings sortition

Literary usage of Sortie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the American Civil War by John William Draper (1870)
"After the departure of General Sherman on. his march to the sea, General Hood, under orders from the Confederate government, continued his sortie toward ..."

2. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"He understood the mysterious firing in the forest, saw that Herkimer must have been prematurely attacked, and ordered his sortie instantly, to serve as a ..."

3. History of the Late War, Between the United States and Great Britain by Henry Marie Brackenridge (1839)
"The impetuosity of colonel Dudley's party, in some measure, disconcerted the plan of the sortie under colonel Miller. Notwithstanding this, he sallied forth ..."

4. History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain by Henry Marie Brackenridge (1844)
"General Brown, observing that the enemy had just completed a battery, which would open a most destructive fire the next day, planned a sortie, which has ..."

5. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1862)
"Throughout the winter he kept up the blockade with his shattered army; though had Carleton ventured upon a sortie, he might have been forced to decamp. ..."

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