shellfire
1
8.8
- noun
- /ˈʃɛlˌfaɪər/
- Specialized
:
fuego de artillería
- The soldiers took cover as the shellfire rained down around them.
- shellfire from guns
- Israeli shellfire
- killed by shellfire
Examples
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(Shellfire)
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This was their first meeting and they stood there under shellfire while Macarthurs men took cover, talking about the futility of taking cover.
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Sometimes it looks like distant shellfire, and sometimes like cities burning.
Fiction book (1996) -
But rest was impossible because our so-called rest camp was continually under shellfire.
Fiction book (2000) -
The headlights showed that nearly every palm tree had been damaged by shellfire at a height of ten feet or so.
Fiction book (1991) -
Now, you're gonna see some shellfire, and you're gonna be scared, see?
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It's under shellfire.
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In the process of losing his memory, did Major Walter Long lose his pride in being decorated for "exceptional bravery under shellfire" in 1918 France during the Great War?
Academic text (2010) -
With their ship battered by shellfire and burning badly, the destroyer's surviving crewmen were forced over the side into the water, from which they were rescued the following morning.
Blog text (26) -
He found himself near the middle of a two-mile-long front of men picking their way over the heaps of earth thrown up by shellfire from what had once been farmland.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
∞
5.9
Shooting weapons at an enemy or target
51
8.3
Firing large guns at an area, often not aimed at a specific target
7
6.9
A heavy attack by military guns and cannons on enemy positions
7
7.9
Soldiers fire explosive shells in a high arc at a target from the ground
3
4.9
Loud shots from large guns used in an attack
A long, very loud attack by many heavy guns firing rapidly
Antonyms
How Intense
- Specialized
14
7.6
47
7.0
- Specialized
1
8.8
51
8.3
∞
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shellfire joins shell, meaning an 'explosive metal case', and fire, meaning 'to shoot', so it creates the image of shells being shot at a place. That's why shellfire means being hit or bombed by many artillery shells.