outflanked in English

verb
1
move around the side of (an enemy) so as to outmaneuver them.
the Germans had sought to outflank them from the northeast

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1. Instead of confronting the enemy directly, Napoleon simply outflanked them.

2. Second, the forts of France's Maginot Line were not tactically outflanked, as myth has it.

3. The Tories found themselves outflanked by Labour on the issue of law and order.

4. He knew full well he had been outflanked, and he appreciated the neatness of it.

5. However, with the collapse of the Norman right, the knights were in danger of being outflanked.

6. At the end of the civil war, grant's union army Had lee's confederate soldiers outflanked at appomattox.

7. Facing the much larger army of Darius I, the Athenians thinned out their phalanx and consequently lengthened their front, to avoid being outflanked.

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9. The 2nd squadron of the 3rd Dragoons Savoia Cavalleria Regiment of the Prince Amedeo Duke of Aosta Fast (Celere) Division, armed with sabres and hand grenades, outflanked an estimated 2,000 Soviet infantry while the remainder of the regiment took Isbushensky in a dismounted attack, .