hostile fire

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   fire that injures or kills an enemy

   Broaderfire

Questions about hostile fire

What does hostile fire mean?

hostile fire means "fire that injures or kills an enemy".

Is hostile fire a common word?

hostile 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.