All cannonading synonyms
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C c noun cannonading
- shot β a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- bombardment β A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- attack β To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
- shooting β to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- thunder β a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge.
- artillery β Artillery consists of large, powerful guns which are transported on wheels and used by an army.
- barrage β A barrage is continuous firing on an area with large guns and tanks.
- blast β A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
- burst β 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.
- detonation β A detonation is a large or powerful explosion.
- firing β a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- salvo β a simultaneous or successive discharge of artillery, bombs, etc.
- cannonade β A cannonade is an intense continuous attack of gunfire.
- hail β to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
- fusillade β a simultaneous or continuous discharge of firearms.
- volley β the simultaneous discharge of a number of missiles or firearms.
- round β having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- crossfire β Crossfire is gunfire, for example in a battle, that comes from two or more different directions and passes through the same area.
- bombarding β to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- discharge β to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- crackle β If something crackles, it makes a rapid series of short, harsh noises.
verb cannonading
- assault β An assault by an army is a strong attack made on an area held by the enemy.
- wipe out β an act of wiping: He gave a few quick wipes to the furniture.
- raid β a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- bombard β 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.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- blow up β If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion.
- strafe β to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
- hound β Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- bomb β A bomb is a device which explodes and damages or destroys a large area.
- besiege β If you are besieged by people, many people want something from you and continually bother you.
- pester β to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- harass β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- batter β If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
- open fire β start shooting
- shell β a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- blitz β If a city or building is blitzed during a war, it is attacked by bombs dropped by enemy aircraft.
- rake β inclination or slope away from the perpendicular or the horizontal.
- napalm β a highly incendiary jellylike substance used in fire bombs, flamethrowers, etc.
- prang β to collide with; bump into.
- torpedo β 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.
- catapult β A catapult is a device for shooting small stones. It is made of a Y-shaped stick with a piece of elastic tied between the two top parts.
- launch β to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
- beset β If someone or something is beset by problems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
- pound β Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
- strike β to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- assail β If someone assails you, they criticize you strongly.
- sound β The, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 miles (140 km) long; 3β30 miles (5β48 km) wide.
- growl β to utter a deep guttural sound of anger or hostility: The dog growled at the mail carrier.
- drum β a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.