Definition of "reconnoitered" [reconnoitered]

• Simple past tense and past participle of reconnoiter. (verb)
• Of a region or situation that has been surveyed (especially in a military situation). (adjective)

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• "More men in dark suits emerged from the cars and briskly reconnoitered the area, positioning themselves around the limousines."
• "In January 2009, Headley traveled to Copenhagen, where he reconnoitered the Jyllands-Posten newspaper on the pretext that he ran an immigration business that was looking to place some advertising in the paper."
• "I first reconnoitered the ground, and then divided the regiment into companies and detachments, with proper supports and reserves, according to the cover and duties to be performed, which were principally to guard the roads against cavalry, the right and left wings against flankers, and to watch the movements of the enemy, and also groups of from one to one hundred, to pick off gunners and protect batteries."