The French directed a cannonade at the British for three hours.
the director of the sporting event was greeted at the scene with a cannonade of complaints
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1562
barrage, blitz, blitzkrieg, bombardment, drumbeat, drumfire, flurry, fusillade, hail, salvo, shower, storm, volley;
avalanche, burst, cataclysm, cataract, deluge, discharge, engulfment, flood, flood tide, flush, gush, inundation, outburst, outflow, outpouring, overflow, rash, spate, surge, torrent;
excess, glut, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus;
the artillery cannonaded the enemy encampment all night
1664
: an attack with cannons that continues for a long time
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