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BATTLE OF ATLANTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864
Synonyms:
Atlanta; battle of Atlanta
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
beleaguering; besieging; military blockade; siege (the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack)
Domain region:
Atlanta; capital of Georgia (state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War)
Holonyms ("battle of Atlanta" is a part of...):
American Civil War; United States Civil War; War between the States (civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865)