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Fusillade

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A discharge from a number of firearms, fired simultaneously or in rapid succession.

n. A rapid outburst or barrage: a fusillade of insults.

v. To attack with a fusillade.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the simultaneous firing of a number of firearms

n. a rapid outburst

v. to fire, or attack with, a fusillade

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A simultaneous discharge of firearms.

v. To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A simultaneous or continuous discharge of musketry: sometimes used figuratively.

To attack or shoot down by a fusillade.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. attack with fusillade

n. 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."

Verb Form

fusilladed fusillades fusillading

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

discharge fire firing

Form

fusillader fusillading

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

discharge

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

cannonade volley downpour salvo bombardment clamor tornado flurry cannonading musketry