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Reconnoiter meaning
To perform a reconnaissance (of an area; an enemy position); to scout with the aim of acquiring information.
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Example sentences (6)
The submarine, which had set a three-man party of commandos ashore two days before to reconnoiter a South Korean naval base, had failed to pick up the party the the previous night.
Gibbon assumed that, since Jackson was supposedly at Centreville (according to Pope), and having just seen the 14th Brooklyn of Hatch's Brigade reconnoiter the position, that these were merely horse artillery cannons from Jeb Stuart's cavalry.
McVeigh felt the need to personally reconnoiter sites of rumored conspiracies.
Memoirs, Chapter 12. In 1942 the Italian menace ended, but the Japanese began to reconnoiter with a view toward landing in force.
The military scout airplane was not expected to carry serious armament, but rather to rely on its speed to reach the scout or reconnoiter location and return quickly to report—essentially an aerial horse.
Two small patrols from two rifle companies from 2/28 Marines were sent up the volcano to reconnoiter routes on the mountain's north face.