friendly fire

1. 1.

   fire that injures or kills an ally

   Synonymsfratricide

   Broaderfire

Questions about friendly fire

What does friendly fire mean?

friendly fire means "fire that injures or kills an ally".

What is another word for friendly fire?

Close synonyms include fratricide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is friendly fire a common word?

friendly fire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.