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fusillade
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fusillade has 1 sense
- fusillade(n = noun.act) burst, salvo, volley - rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise" is a kind of fire, firing
Derived form verb fusillade1
Verb fusillade has 1 sense
- fusillade(v = verb.competition) Array - attack with fusillade; Array is one way to discharge, fire
Derived form noun fusillade1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
fusillade, n. [F. fusillade, cf. It. fucilata. See Fusil a firelock.].
A simultaneous discharge of firearms. [1913 Webster]
fusillade, v. t.
To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fusillade, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a continuous discharge of firearms. b a wholesale execution by this means.
2 a sustained outburst of criticism etc.
--v.tr.
1 assault (a place) by a fusillade.
2 shoot down (persons) with a fusillade.
--n.
1 a a continuous discharge of firearms. b a wholesale execution by this means.
2 a sustained outburst of criticism etc.
--v.tr.
1 assault (a place) by a fusillade.
2 shoot down (persons) with a fusillade.
Etymology
F f. fusiller shoot
THESAURUS
fusillade
aim at, antiaircraft barrage, bang, bark, barrage, bash, bat, beating, beheading, belt, biff, blast, blitz, blow, bombard, bombardment, bonk, bowshot, box barrage, broadside, bullet, burning, burst, cannon, cannonade, cannonry, capital punishment, chop, clip, clout, clump, commence firing, crack, creeping barrage, crucifixion, cut, dash, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, detonation, dig, dint, discharge, drub, drubbing, drumfire, drumming, ejection, electrocution, emergency barrage, enfilade, execution, explosion, fire a volley, fire at, fire upon, fulmination, garrote, gassing, gun, gunfire, gunshot, hanging, hemlock, hit, jab, judicial murder, knock, lapidation, lick, mortar, mortar barrage, necktie party, normal barrage, open fire, open up on, pelt, pepper, plunk, poisoning, poke, pop, pop at, potshot, pound, punch, rake, rap, salvo, shell, shoot, shoot at, shooting, shot, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, snipe, snipe at, sock, spray, standing barrage, stoneshot, stoning, strafe, strangling, strangulation, stroke, swat, swing, swipe, take aim at, tattoo, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, thump, thwack, torpedo, volley, whack, whop, yerk, zero in onROGET THESAURUS
fusillade
Attack
N attack, assault, assault and battery, onset, onslaught, charge, aggression, offense, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, outbreak, estrapade, ruade, coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray, run at, run against, dead set at, storm, storming, boarding, escalade, siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade, fire, volley, platoon fire, file fire, fusillade, sharpshooting, broadside, raking fire, cross fire, volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer, cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust, coupe de bec, kick, punch, battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade, devastation, eboulement, assailant, aggressor, invader, base of operations, point of attack, echelon, attacking, aggressive, offensive, obsidional, up in arms, on the offensive, Int, up and at them!, the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death, their fatal hands no second stroke intend, thirst for glory quells the love of life.Killing
N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.
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