grenade

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɹəˈneɪd/

Noun

grenade (plural grenades)

1. A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher.
2. (obsolete) A pomegranate.
3. (heraldiccharge) A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
4. (slang) An unattractive girl.

Related terms

• garnet
• grenado
• pomegranate

Translations

• French: grenade
• German: Granate
• Portuguese: granada
• Russian: грана́та
• Spanish: granada

Verb

grenade (grenades, present participle grenading; past and past participle grenaded)

1. To use grenade(s) upon.
   • 2001, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, page 43:

     Some of the infantry got pinned down by it, and from cover kept up the battle by grenading rubble piles or any other likely spots ahead of them.

   • 2015, Gordon L. Rottman, The Hand Grenade, page 46:

     They advanced after grenading the next traverse, much like the British did.

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