Drilled and Trained

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Drilled adjective - Trained in a skill by repetitious practice.

Usage example: “well- drilled in military procedures”

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Trained and drilled are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trained" instead the word "Drilled" as an adjective or a verb.

Nearby Words: drill, drilling, driller

Trained adjective - Shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form.

Usage example: trained pigeons

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Drilled and trained are semantically related. You can use "Drilled" instead the word "Trained" as an adjective or a verb.

Nearby Words: train, training, trainee, trainer

Rather than rely on any sort of individual marksmanship, massed fire was relied on to overcome these inherent disadvantages, and so a soldier was incessantly drilled and trained like an automaton to fire as fast as the man next to him.

Source: A-Team Firing
War Minister Scharnhorst found a loophole, the so-called Krümpersystem: Soldiers were drilled for a few weeks, left the army, and new ones were trained.

Source: Loophole Abuse / Real Life
In the First Opium War, well-drilled British troops under the command of veterans of the French Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars (1790-1815) using tactics perfected during said wars took on poorly-trained Qing musketment who hadn't fought a war in living memory.

Source: Useful Notes / Dynasties from Shang to Qing

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