to barrage
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7.8
- verb
- /bəˈrɑːʒ/
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bombardear (a alguien) con
- Every issue has been linked, no matter how commonsensical, and consumers are constantly barraged with preachy advertisements and news reports.
We're we're constantly barraged by, by, yeah, other people's ideas.
- We're we're constantly barraged by, by, yeah, other people's ideas.
- I don't think that movies are all predictable, but but I think that the ones that we're that we're barraged with often are.
- You scroll through your news feed and you're barrage with more terrible details or lots of negative comments.
Examples
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During the meeting, the manager barraged us with questions about our progress on the project.
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And ever since that moment, I've just been barraged with a series of anxiety-induced hallucinations.
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Next time, I'll write into a word processor and sleep on it before barraging the community with my thoughts as they come to mind.
Blog text (2) -
Sheldon is led from the warehouse in handcuffs and is barraged with questions from waiting reporters.
Fiction book (2002) -
CAAP staff attending educational conferences or talking on the phone with teachers are constantly barraged with questions and comments like these: "Do you have something for fourth graders?"
Academic text (1993) -
Today, as I walked into work, I was barraged by the enormous Salesforce conference (50,000 attendees!) in downtown San Francisco.
Blog text (34) -
As soon as the speaker finished, the audience barraged her with requests for more information.
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After the announcement, journalists began to barrage the politician with inquiries about her plans.
Synonyms
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4.4
Attack an enemy again and again in small ways to wear them down
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5.6
To give someone many questions or messages quickly
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4.7
To annoy someone by asking them the same thing many times
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3.2
To annoy someone by asking for things again and again
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5.7
To give someone many questions or requests at the same time
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7.8
To surround a person with many requests and questions
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7.4
To give someone so much work or so many requests that they cannot cope
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5.5
Ask someone many quick questions until they cannot answer easily
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Archaic
A large balloon tied to the ground with cables to keep low enemy planes away in war
- Specialized
A long heavy stream of shots from large guns across a wide area to hit many places
- Australian
A way of stopping radio signals by sending noise across many frequencies at once
How Intense
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb barrage comes from the noun for a barrier or 'wall of fire', so to barrage someone is to send a steady, overwhelming 'wall' of questions or complaints at them. That is why to barrage a person is to overwhelm them with many words or requests at once.