All cannonade synonyms
can·non·ade
C c noun cannonade
- salvo — a simultaneous or successive discharge of artillery, bombs, etc.
- burst — If something bursts or if you burst it, it suddenly breaks open or splits open and the air or other substance inside it comes out.
- battery — Batteries are small devices that provide the power for electrical items such as radios and children's toys.
- blitz — If a city or building is blitzed during a war, it is attacked by bombs dropped by enemy aircraft.
- shower — a person or thing that shows.
- bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- volley — the simultaneous discharge of a number of missiles or firearms.
- bomb — A bomb is a device which explodes and damages or destroys a large area.
- barrage — A barrage is continuous firing on an area with large guns and tanks.
- hail — to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
- onslaught — an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
- pounding — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
verb cannonade
- bombard — If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.
- zero in — the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
- napalm — a highly incendiary jellylike substance used in fire bombs, flamethrowers, etc.
- open fire — start shooting
- blitzed — inebriated; drunk
- re-echo — to echo back, as a sound.
- prang — to collide with; bump into.
- strafe — to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
- cannonading — a continued discharge of cannon, especially during an attack.
- bombinate — to make a buzzing noise
- roll — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- torpedo — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
- whirr — to go, fly, revolve, or otherwise move quickly with a humming or buzzing sound: An electric fan whirred softly in the corner.