reconnoitre
verb(US English reconnoiter)
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they reconnoitre | |
he / she / it reconnoitres | |
past simple reconnoitred | |
past participle reconnoitred | |
-ing form reconnoitring |
- reconnoitre (something)
to get information about an area, especially for military purposes, by using soldiers, planes, etc. 侦察;勘察;观测 Word Originearly 18th cent.: from obsolete French reconnoître, from Latin recognoscere ‘know again’, from re- ‘again’ + cognoscere ‘learn’.