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noun

ˌka-nə-ˈnād How to pronounce cannonade (audio)
Definition of cannonadenext
as in barrage
a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once the director of the sporting event was greeted at the scene with a cannonade of complaints

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cannonade

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verb

as in to bomb
to use bombs or artillery against the artillery cannonaded the enemy encampment all night

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Recent Examples of cannonade
Noun
Artillery cannonade from both sides is heard around the clock. — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023 The conclusion of your letter makes my heart throb more than a cannonade. — CBS News, 9 Aug. 2022 In general, however, the report was a cap-gun ending to an inquiry whose backers hinted would turn up a cannonade of fraud. — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2021 Watson’s cannonade of wonders and statistics sometimes proceeds in almost carnival mood, leading to arbitrary indulgences. — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
Verb
But Americans chose to cannonade each other with pamphlets, not artillery. — Joseph Tartakovsky, WSJ, 2 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cannonade
  1. barrage
  2. bomb
  3. flurry
  4. attack
  5. volley
  6. bombard
  7. bombardment
  8. batter
Noun
  • The barrage killed a 78-year-old woman in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and another person in the northern Kharkiv region, with at least 14 people reported wounded elsewhere, Ukrainian officials said.
    — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Iran’s state media, in turn, has waged a sophisticated propaganda campaign, publishing a barrage of content and misinformation meant to sway public opinion of the wider war and diminish its government’s losses.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of barrage
Verb
  • Hmeimin served as a hub for Syrian warplanes that repeatedly bombed anti-Assad opposition groups, killing several civilians and destroying large parts of Syria’s infrastructure, including hospitals and medical facilities, in the process.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Their meeting came days after Trump threatened to bomb the country over their Strait of Hormuz negotiations with Iran.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of bomb
Noun
  • However, this flurry of spy satellite development was short-lived.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • But over the next two decades, the singer would reiterate her legacy as an unstoppable force with a flurry of world tours, studio albums, film projects, corporate partnerships, and books.
    — Stephen L. Betts, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of flurry
Verb
  • Somebody years ago should have realized NSA Bahrain could be attacked, its air defense might fail and it could be disabled in a long war.
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The meeting was not received well by many Democrats, who attacked Jeffries over it.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of attack
Noun
  • The world’s strikers are going to have to reach deep into their bag of sweetly struck volleys, mazy solo goals and thundering free kicks to eclipse it.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Sam Junqua played an arcing first-touch cross from 35 yards out on the left side to the back post and Marczuk gently rolled in the volley.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of volley
Verb
  • Kyiv urgently needs more interceptors before winter, when Russia routinely bombards its power grid, but the demands of the Iran war and slow output of the sophisticated interceptors have left Ukraine short and vulnerable.
    — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Data centers are shifting from the training of AI models — a stage that involves bombarding them with data — to a phase known as inference.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of bombard
Noun
  • None of the works address the recent bombardments directly, although the precarious context of ongoing threat, instability and struggle can be felt in almost all of them.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In one recent bombardment of Kyiv, Ukraine’s defences failed to intercept a single missile; 17 people were killed.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of bombardment
Verb
  • Some of those rescued are covered in mud and appear injured after being battered by the flood, one video shows.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The war has already battered Iran’s economy and inflicted mounting pain on ordinary people.
    — David Rising, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
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