harassing fire

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   fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale

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Questions about harassing fire

What does harassing fire mean?

harassing fire means "fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale".

Is harassing fire a common word?

harassing 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.