fusillade
炮击,猛烈抨击,炮轰,猛烈攻击
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Definitions
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- : a simultaneous or continuous discharge of firearms.
- : a general discharge or outpouring of anything: a fusillade of questions.
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fu·sil·lad·ed, fu·sil·lad·ing.
- : to attack or shoot by a fusillade.
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Examples
Nonetheless, the truck gunning in reverse was enough to trigger a fusillade of 19 bullets from McCormick and Phillips, who said they feared for each other’s lives.
They can expect a fusillade of incoming from Gillibrand and her colleagues.
During the whole day there was an incessant fusillade, the rebelsʼ chief stronghold being the Recoleto Convent.
Off to the left had sounded a series of sharp explosions, as a fusillade of rifle shots.
They had not long to wait; a sharp fusillade began, mingled with the cries and yells of the assailants.
Just ahead the rioters had turned to pour a fusillade of fifty shots into a house from which a revolver shot had been fired.
They saluted the dawn with a noisy fusillade that ran along the miles of winding line.