Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun harassing_fire

1 sense of harassing fire

Sense 1
harassing fire -- (fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale)
       => fire, firing -- (the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire")