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cannonade collapse: intense and continuous artillery fire; attack with canons or artillery

volley collapse: a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces; utter rapidly; "volley a string of curses"; make a volley; discharge in, or as if in, a volley; "the attackers volleyed gunshots at the civilians"; hit before it touches the ground; "volley the tennis ball"; be dispersed in a volley; "gun shots volleyed at the attackers"

broadside collapse: the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship; the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern; "the ship was broadside to the dock"; all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship; toward a full side; "a broadside attack"; with a side facing an object; "the train hit the truck broadside"; "the wave caught the canoe broadside and capsized it"; collide with the broad side of; "her car broad-sided mine"

salvo collapse: a sudden outburst of cheers; "there was a salvo of approval"; an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs

fusillade collapse: rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise"; attack with fusillade

barrage collapse: the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing"; the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written); "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake"

spray collapse: flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage; a jet of vapor; a quantity of small objects flying through the air; "a spray of bullets"; a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying; water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall; scatter in a mass or jet of droplets; "spray water on someone"; "spray paint on the wall"; cover by spraying with a liquid; "spray the wall with paint"; be discharged in sprays of liquid; "Water sprayed all over the floor"

burst collapse: a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason); "a burst of applause"; "a fit of housecleaning"; suddenly and violently broken open especially from internal pressure (`busted' is an informal term for `burst'); "a burst balloon"; "burst pipes"; "burst seams"; "a ruptured appendix"; "a busted balloon"; break open or apart suddenly; "The bubble burst"; break open or apart suddenly and forcefully; "The dam burst"; emerge suddenly; "The sun burst into view"; move suddenly, energetically, or violently; "He burst out of the house into the cool night"

gunfight collapse: a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten

missile collapse: a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control

firepower collapse: (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target

gunfire collapse: the act of shooting a gun; "the gunfire endangered innocent bystanders"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"

strafe collapse: an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane; "the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields"; attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane; "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"

paradiddle collapse: the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously

drumbeat collapse: a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause; "the warmongers kept up their drumbeat on Iraq"; (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown

musketry collapse: the technique of using small arms (especially in battle); musketeers and their muskets collectively

bombard collapse: address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage; "The speaker was barraged by an angry audience"; "The governor was bombarded with requests to grant a pardon to the convicted killer"; throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden"

snipe collapse: a gunshot from a concealed location; Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks; hunt or shoot snipe

roadblock collapse: a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

mortar collapse: a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range; a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle; used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall; plaster with mortar; "mortar the wall"

pulsation collapse: (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"; a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity

bamboo curtain collapse: an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s

logjam collapse: an immovable mass of logs blocking a river; any stoppage attributable to unusual activity; "the legislation ran into a logjam"

ruff collapse: (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit; common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season

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