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antitank

[ an-tee-tangk, an-tahy- ]

adjective

Military.
  1. designed for use against tanks or other armored vehicles:

    antitank gun.



antitank

/ ˌæԳɪˈæŋ /

adjective

  1. designed to immobilize or destroy armoured vehicles ATK

    antitank weapons

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of antitank1

First recorded in 1915–20; anti- + tank
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Instead, they are sown with “dragons’ teeth,” concrete antitank barriers typically bound together with cables and threaded with razor wire.

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So far, though, the Pentagon has identified a potential danger only in a few unusual circumstances, like firing powerful antitank weapons or an abnormally high number of artillery shells.

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In flat green fields less than half an hour to the east, though, crews scatter pyramid-shaped reinforced cement antitank obstacles known as “dragon’s teeth.”

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In one Israeli border town, antitank missiles fired from Lebanon have damaged scores of homes.

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Mr. Trump’s allies also point out that he approved sending antitank weapons to Ukraine, which President Obama had not done after Russia seized Crimea in 2014.

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