deep supporting fire
- noun
- Specialized
:
fuego de apoyo profundo
- The artillery unit provided deep supporting fire to disrupt enemy reinforcements before the main assault.
Examples
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Commanders requested deep supporting fire against the enemy supply lines to weaken their response capabilities.
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Effective deep supporting fire can significantly impair the enemy's ability to organize a counterattack.
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The military deployed deep supporting fire to cover the advancing troops.
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Can we request deep supporting fires during the operation?
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Commanders requested deep supporting fire against the enemy supply lines to weaken their response capabilities.
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The artillery unit provided deep supporting fire to disrupt enemy reinforcements before the main assault.
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Effective deep supporting fire can significantly impair the enemy's ability to organize a counterattack.
Synonyms
1
7.0
Gunfire by other soldiers or tanks that protects attacking soldiers from the enemy
Weapons fired into an area to stop enemy troops moving through it
How Far
47
7.0
- Specialized
- Specialized
1
7.0
- Specialized
1
7.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
deep + supporting + fire
The phrase components are compositional: 'supporting fire' literally means 'fire that supports' and 'deep' conveys distance or operating in the enemy's depth, so a learner who knows the constituent words could infer a general meaning of distant/long‑range fire that assists operations. However, the precise tactical nuance (disrupting enemy reserves, command and communications away from friendly forces) is specialized military jargon and not fully predictable for an average B1 learner without prior exposure.
Etymology
Deep supporting fire comes from the image of guns firing far into the enemy's rear to help a main attack. Here deep means the shots go far from friendly troops, and supporting fire means fire that helps an attack by hitting supply lines, leaders and communications, so the phrase means 'fire directed at targets away from friendly forces'.