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barrage
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun barrage has 2 senses
- barrage(n = noun.communication) bombardment, onslaught, outpouring - the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written); "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake" is a kind of language, linguistic communication
- barrage(n = noun.act) barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling - the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing" is a kind of fire, firing
Derived form verb barrage1
Verb barrage has 1 sense
- barrage(v = verb.communication) bombard - address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage; "The speaker was barraged by an angry audience"; "The governor was bombarded with requests to grant a pardon to the convicted killer" is one way to assail, assault, attack, lash out, round, snipe
Derived form noun barrage1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
barrage, n. [F., fr. barrer to bar, from barre bar.].
An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or watercourse to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
barrage, n.
1 a concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area.
2 a rapid succession of questions or criticisms.
3 an artificial barrier, esp. in a river.
4 a heat or deciding event in fencing, show jumping, etc.
1 a concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area.
2 a rapid succession of questions or criticisms.
3 an artificial barrier, esp. in a river.
4 a heat or deciding event in fencing, show jumping, etc.
Idiom
barrage balloon a large anchored balloon, often with netting suspended from it, used (usu. as one of a series) as a defence against low-flying aircraft.
Etymology
F f. barrer (as BAR(1))
THESAURUS
barrage
aim at, antiaircraft barrage, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrier, bear-trap dam, beat, beating, beaver dam, blast, blitz, bombard, bombardment, boom, box barrage, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, broadside, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, burst, cannon, cannonade, cannonry, cofferdam, commence firing, creeping barrage, dam, defense, dike, ditch, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, earthwork, embankment, emergency barrage, enfilade, eruption, fence, fire a volley, fire at, fire upon, flare, flutter, fusillade, gate, gravity dam, groin, hail, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, milldam, moat, mole, mortar, mortar barrage, mound, normal barrage, open fire, open up on, outburst, palpitation, paradiddle, parapet, patter, pepper, pitapat, pitter-patter, pop at, portcullis, pound, pounding, pulsation, rake, rampart, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, roadblock, rock-fill dam, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, salvo, seawall, shell, shoot, shoot at, shower, shutter dam, snipe, snipe at, spatter, splutter, spray, sputter, staccato, standing barrage, stone wall, storm, strafe, stream, surge, take aim at, tat-tat, tattoo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thumping, tom-tom, tornado, torpedo, volley, wall, weir, wicket dam, work, zero in on
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