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Definition of "blitzkrieg" [blitz•krieg]

  • A swift, sudden military offensive, usually by combined air and mobile land forces. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "blitzkrieg" in a sentence
  • "The Germans were the first to master this technique, which they called blitzkrieg or "lightning war.""
  • "It was the first large-scale attack on London, which would face similar attacks every day for the next two months as part of a Nazi campaign known as "the Blitz," an abbreviation of the German word blitzkrieg, or "lightning war.""
  • "Incidentally, the German Wehrmacht never officially used the word blitzkrieg - literally, "lightning war" - though it did appear in several prewar German military publications."
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