fog of war
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations.
noun
The shrouded concealment of enemy activity outside of areas observable by a player's forces.
Example Sentences
- "Future reports from any source should be treated with caution. What we can see is not the “fog of war,” in the old-fashioned sense; instead it is a kind of swirling tornado, a maelstrom of claims and counterclaims, memes and countermemes, real battles taking place away from television screens and fake ones happening on camera."
- "Only now, amid the fog of war, is it possible to ascertain what happened."
- "The game starts with an overhead view of a map with the “fog of war” covering all areas not within sight of the player's units."