exfil

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A form of exfiltration — The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).

Scrabble 15

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nounexfil (countable and uncountable, plural exfils)

plural exfils · alternative exfill

  1. abbreviationclippingcountableuncountablegovernmentClipping of exfiltration (“the act of going out of a place”).

    And unlike battle royale games such as Call of Duty: Warzone or Fortnite, teams can escape at any time, just by getting to one of several exfil sites and calling in a helicopter.

    2022 November 30, Keith Stuart, “Pushing Buttons: There’s a place for narrative in games, but I’m done worshipping the story gods”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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    After all this information has been gained, the troops and teams start conducting rehearsals on hitting the target. What this means is that they will conduct Full Mission Profiles (FMP). This covers every aspect of the operation — the infil to the target, actions on the objective, and then exfil from the target location back to the staging area.

    2019 November 22, Brian Gilly, “Gilly: When Army Special Operations gets ‘the call’ for battle”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  2. abbreviationclippingcountableuncountablecomputer securityClipping of exfiltration (“covert extraction of data”).
verbexfil (third-person singular simple present exfils, present participle exfiling or exfilling, simple past and past participle exfiled or exfilled)

present singular third person exfils · participle present exfiling · participle present exfilling · participle past exfiled · past exfiled · participle past exfilled · past exfilled · alternative exfill

  1. abbreviationclippingClipping of exfiltrate.

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APA

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exfil,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exfil.

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