grenade
nomverbecourant dans les dialogues
- //ɡɹəˈneɪd//
A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket.
nom
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A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket.
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obsolèteA pomegranate.
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A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
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argotAn unattractive girl.
Étymologie
Borrowed from French grenade, from Old French grenate in the phrase pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), ultimately from Medieval Latin pōmum (“apple”) + grānātum (“having grains”). The -d developed in French under influence of Spanish granada. Doublet of garnet.
verbe
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To use grenade(s) upon.
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.
They advanced after grenading the next traverse, much like the British did.
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argotOf an engine: to be violently wrecked so that the internal components burst out.
Formes
- pluriel
- grenades
- passé
- grenaded
- participe passé
- grenaded
- participe présent
- grenading
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- grenades
grenade · A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket.
Greta · A female given name from Ancient Greek.Gretchen · A female given name from German origin; a pet form of…Grew · A surname.