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sortie

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sor⋅tie

  [sawr-tee] noun, verb, -tied, -tie⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
2. a body of troops involved in such a movement.
3. the flying of an airplane on a combat mission.
–verb (used without object)
4. to go on a sortie; sally forth.
Origin:
1680–90; < F, n. use of fem. ptp. of sortir to go out
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sor·tie   (sôr'tē, sôr-tē')   
n.  

  1. An armed attack, especially one made from a place surrounded by enemy forces.

  2. A flight of a combat aircraft on a mission.

intr.v.   sor·tied, sor·tie·ing, sor·ties
To go on a sortie.

[French, from feminine past participle of sortir, to go out, from Old French.]
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