shrapnel
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5.0
- noun
- /ˈʃræp.nəl/
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- Investigators discovered that the blast was caused by a bomb containing deadly shrapnel hidden in the market.
When did the sides learn that cloth doesn't stop bullets or shrapnel or much of anything?
- When did the sides learn that cloth doesn't stop bullets or shrapnel or much of anything?
- When he was fighting the Soviets, he got a shrapnel wound in his eye, and he was blinded in one eye.
- So you're firing rounds over that trench and it's blowing up and sending shrapnel into the inside of the trench.
- And he took the shrapnel he had travelled in the chest, shrapnel in the eye.
- Why did I survive the shrapnel, the insider attack?
- And if you read their reports, they state that children were coming into the hospitals with no shrapnel.
Examples
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When he was fighting the Soviets, he got a shrapnel wound in his eye, and he was blinded in one eye.
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A lot of shrapnel came out - I saved you the pieces.
Fiction book (1996) -
I can see the shrapnel with my naked eye.
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Her skull had been cut open by a piece of shrapnel.
Fiction book (1997) -
Two people were injured by shrapnel, and several other people suffered from shock.
Blog text (20) -
Four IDF soldiers were lightly injured by shrapnel from a rocket in the Eshkol area.
Blog text (26) -
After the explosion, emergency workers found small pieces of shrapnel scattered around the site.
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The soldier suffered injuries from shrapnel during the attack and required immediate medical attention.
Synonyms
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4.1
Scattered broken pieces left after something is destroyed
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6.8
Small broken pieces after something is smashed or blown apart
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Etymology
Shrapnel comes from the name of a British officer, Henry Shrapnel, whose shells broke into many small metal balls when they burst. Today shrapnel usually means those small metal fragments that 'fly' or 'scatter' from a bomb or shell.