firefight
交火,灭火,交战,斗殴
Definitions
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- : an exchange of gunfire between two opposing forces, especially a skirmish between military forces.
Examples
During the day-long firefight, Pretel is said to have repeatedly assured the men that reinforcements were coming to rescue them.
While she ultimately proves to be a bad firefight leader, she’s expresses her personality and emotions more clearly here than in the first game.
There was quite a firefight over trying to find out who this was.
During the intense firefight that followed, four Kurdish fighters died, including three of Ahmed's cousins.
What often is forgotten—and what Beck could probably stand to remember—is that the massacre was, technically, a firefight.
Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.
There is something about a firefight at night, something about the mechanical elegance of an M-60 machine gun.
The day after the assault, ISAF announced that forces had stumbled upon the dead women after a firefight with insurgents.