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barrage

English

  1. 🔊 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”
  2. 🔊 the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)
    “a barrage of questions”
  3. 🔊 address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage
    “The speaker was barraged by an angry audience”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 alud barrage
  2. 🔊 chaparrón barrage, burst (e.g., barrage of criticism)

Similar words

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