Fusillade vs Enfilade - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between fusillade and enfilade

is that fusillade is the simultaneous firing of a number of firearms while enfilade is a line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.

As verbs the difference between fusillade and enfilade

is that fusillade is to fire, or attack with, a fusillade while enfilade is to rake something with gunfire.

fusillade

English

Noun

(en noun)

the simultaneous firing of a number of firearms

(by extension) a rapid outburst

* 1901 , , (w, The Monkey's Paw)

But her husband was on his hands and knees groping wildly on the floor in search of the paw. If he could only find it before the thing outside got in. A perfect fusillade of knocks reverberated through the house, and he heard the scraping of a chair as his wife put it down in the passage against the door.

Verb

(fusillad)

to fire, or attack with, a fusillade

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enfilade

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)

A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.

gunfire directed along the length of a target

(architecture) a series of doors that provide a vista when open

Synonyms

* flanking fire, raking fire

Verb

(enfilad)

to rake something with gunfire

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=30 citation , passage=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.}}

Synonyms

* flank ----