Fusillade

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  • noun. A discharge from a number of firearms, fired simultaneously or in rapid succession.
  • noun. A rapid outburst or barrage.
  • transitive verb. To attack with a fusillade.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A simultaneous or continuous discharge of musketry: sometimes used figuratively.
  • To attack or shoot down by a fusillade.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
  • transitive verb. To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the simultaneous firing of a number of firearms
  • noun. a rapid outburst
  • verb. to fire, or attack with, a fusillade
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. attack with fusillade
  • noun. rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
    • Word Usage
    "Then, from lower down to the right, there came a fusillade from the English lines suddenly breaking out, and after a few minutes as suddenly stopping again."
    Form
    fusillader  fusillading  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    discharge  fire  firing  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bombardment  cannonade  cannonading  clamor  crossfire  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aim at  antiaircraft barrage  bang  bark  barrage  
    verb-form
    fusilladed  fusillades  fusillading  
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