to cannonade

Examples

• All

• Rain leached off the roof, and thunder cannonaded down the mountain ranges.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Row after row after row from the ring, the crowd is standing and cheering, as he just cannonaded Jake La Motta into a death defeat.

  Raging Bull (1980)

• As the twenty-foot tide rolled in like a living army, cannonading off the cruel cliffs.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Glass shatters, and there's a white, chest-thumping concussion of flash grenades and the sound of all three doors caving in, like four or five breakfronts being cannonaded.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The troops began to cannonade the enemy positions at dawn, sending shells flying through the air.

• During the battle, the general ordered the artillery to cannonade the fortifications relentlessly for hours.

Synonyms

S

to shell

vsto cannonade

27 7.9

To fire metal containers filled with explosives at a place or people to cause damage

focuses on long sustained heavy artillery bombardment

B

to bombard

vsto cannonade

13 5.4

To attack something repeatedly by throwing things like stones or bombs

specifies long attacks using heavy artillery over a period

F

to fusillade

vsto cannonade

• Literature

9.9

To fire a quick series of shots at someone or something

means a slower continuous heavy artillery bombardment rather than rapid bursts

Compounds

S

sudden cannonade

• Archaic

9.2

A sudden series of very loud bangs like explosions

How Intense

to bombard

13 5.4

to cannonade

• Formal

1 9.9

to shell

27 7.9

to fire

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology