cannonade

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Noun

cannonade (plural cannonades)

1. Firing artillery in a large amount for a length of time .

   • A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted town.

2. (figurative) A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.

   • Blue Walden rolls its cannonade.

Translations

• French: canonnade
• German: Kanonade
• Italian: cannoneggiamento
• Russian: канона́да

Verb

cannonade (cannonades, present participle cannonading; past and past participle cannonaded)

1. To discharge artillery fire upon.

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