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shelling [shel]
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barrage [buh-rahzh; especially Brit. bar-ahzh for 1, 2, 4, 5; bahr-ij for 3]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weapon fire
Synonyms: battery, blast, bombardment, broadside, cannonade, crossfire, curtain of fire, discharge, enfilade, fire, fusillade, gunfire, hail, salvo, shelling, shower, storm, volley
Main Entry: bomb
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: detonate weapon
Synonyms: attack, blast, blitz, blow up, bombard, cannonade, destroy, napalm, prang, raid, rain destruction, rake, shell, strafe, torpedo, wipe out, zero in
Main Entry: bombard
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: assault, attack
Synonyms: assail, barrage, batter, beset, besiege, blast, blitz, bomb, cannonade, catapult, fire upon, harass, hound, launch, open fire, pester, pound, shell, strafe, strike
Main Entry: fire
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: barrage of projectiles
Synonyms: attack, bombarding, bombardment, bombing, cannonade, cannonading, crossfire, explosion, fusillade, hail, round, salvo, shelling, sniping, volley
Main Entry: fire
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: detonate or throw a weapon
Synonyms: cast, discharge, eject, explode, fling, heave, hurl, launch, let off, loose, pitch, pull trigger, set off, shell, shoot, toss, touch off
Main Entry: pod
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Definition: encasement of vegetable seeds
Synonyms: capsule, case, covering, hull, husk, sheath, sheathing, shell, shuck, skin, vessel
Main Entry: raid
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attack, pillage
Synonyms: assail, assault, blockade, bomb, bombard, breach, break in, charge, descend on, despoil, devastate, fall upon, fire on, forage, foray, harass, harry, heat, inroad, invade, knock off, knock over, lean against, lean on, loot, maraud, march on, overrun, pirate, plunder, rake, ransack, rifle, rob, sack, sally, sally forth, shell, slough, spoliate, storm, strafe, strike, sweep, swoop, tip over, torpedo, waste
Antonyms: aid, assist, guard, help, protect
Main Entry: volley
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: barrage
Synonyms: battery, bombardment, burst, cannonade, crossfire, enfilade, firing, fussilade, gunfire, hail, round, salvo, shelling, shower, storm
Main Entry: war
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fight, battle
Synonyms: attack, attempt, bombard, campaign against, challenge, clash, combat, contend, contest, differ, disagree, endeavor, engage in combat, go to war, kill, make war, march against, meet, murder, oppugn, shell, shoot, strive, struggle, take on, take the field against, take up arms, tug, wage war
Antonyms: agree, ceasefire, make peace
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