DIVERSIONARY ATTACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diversionary attack mean? 

• DIVERSIONARY ATTACK (noun)
  The noun DIVERSIONARY ATTACK has 1 sense:

1. an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack

  Familiarity information: DIVERSIONARY ATTACK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVERSIONARY ATTACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

diversion; diversionary attack

Hypernyms ("diversionary attack" is a kind of...):

attack; onrush; onset; onslaught ((military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diversionary attack"):

diversionary landing (an amphibious diversionary attack)