Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to enfilade
Participle: enfiladed
Gerund: enfilading
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | enfilade |
| you | enfilade |
| he;she;it | enfilades |
| we | enfilade |
| you | enfilade |
| they | enfilade |
Perfect
| I | have enfiladed |
| you | have enfiladed |
| he;she;it | has enfiladed |
| we | have enfiladed |
| you | have enfiladed |
| they | have enfiladed |
Past
| I | enfiladed |
| you | enfiladed |
| he;she;it | enfiladed |
| we | enfiladed |
| you | enfiladed |
| they | enfiladed |
Pluperfect
| I | had enfiladed |
| you | had enfiladed |
| he;she;it | had enfiladed |
| we | had enfiladed |
| you | had enfiladed |
| they | had enfiladed |
Future
| I | will enfilade |
| you | will enfilade |
| he;she;it | will enfilade |
| we | will enfilade |
| you | will enfilade |
| they | will enfilade |
Future Perfect
| I | will have enfiladed |
| you | will have enfiladed |
| he;she;it | will have enfiladed |
| we | will have enfiladed |
| you | will have enfiladed |
| they | will have enfiladed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | enfilade |
| you | enfilade |
| he;she;it | enfilade |
| we | enfilade |
| you | enfilade |
| they | enfilade |
Perfect
| I | have enfiladed |
| you | have enfiladed |
| he;she;it | have enfiladed |
| we | have enfiladed |
| you | have enfiladed |
| they | have enfiladed |
Imperfect
| I | enfiladed |
| you | enfiladed |
| he;she;it | enfiladed |
| we | enfiladed |
| you | enfiladed |
| they | enfiladed |
Pluperfect
| I | had enfiladed |
| you | had enfiladed |
| he;she;it | had enfiladed |
| we | had enfiladed |
| you | had enfiladed |
| they | had enfiladed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would enfilade |
| you | would enfilade |
| he;she;it | would enfilade |
| we | would enfilade |
| you | would enfilade |
| they | would enfilade |
Perfect
| I | would have enfiladed |
| you | would have enfiladed |
| he;she;it | would have enfiladed |
| we | would have enfiladed |
| you | would have enfiladed |
| they | would have enfiladed |
Imperative
| you | enfilade |
| we | Let's enfilade |
| you | enfilade |
Verbs conjugated like 'enfilade'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'enfilade'
defilade,
enflame,
ensilage,
e-file,
efflate,
enclave,
enclude,
enface,
enfame,
enfierce,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1706, from F. enfilade, from O.Fr. enfiler "to thread (a needle) on a string, pierce from end to end," from en- "put on" + fil "thread." Used of rows of apartments and lines of trees before modern military sense came to predominate.
2. Borrowed from French enfilade.
Sample Sentences
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A great quantity of artillery was placed upon the eminence, so as to batter and enfilade the left of their intrenchments. [1765, John Wright, chapter 7, in The Compleat History of the Late War, volume 1, London: David Steel, page 202:]
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As they scrambled up a narrow path they every where found holes dug to cover the defenders of the mountain, and sticks crossed for resting their guns, with which they enfiladed every angle, that from the steepness it was necessary to make in ascending. [1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 3, p. 72:]
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It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle. [1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 30, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:]
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He killed the machine gun crew, and without further orders pushed on and enfiladed a ditch from which three officers and 160 men subsequently surrendered. [2019 November 20, “Service honours railwaymen who fought and died in WW1”, in Rail, page 66:]
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Together they saw the market thicken, and in course of time thin away with the slow decline of the sun towards the upper end of town, its rays taking the street endways and enfilading the long thoroughfare from top to bottom. [1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 24, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:]
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From her rocking chair in the parlour, Mrs. Zell’s scrutiny enfiladed the entire block. [1921, Henry G. Aikman, Zell, London: Jonathan Cape, Part 1, Chapter 1, p. 15:]
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[…] the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses’) one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d’or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry […] [1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book 1, Chapter 3:]