Recent Examples on the WebBesides the air-to-air encounters, the Swordsmen led two of seven strikes against Houthi ground targets in Yemen, destroying munitions and command and control facilities, the release said.—Brad Lendon, CNN, 22 July 2024 Most of the victims were African Americans assigned by the segregated Navy to the dangerous work of loading munitions onto ships.—Tracy Roosevelt, Washington Post, 22 July 2024 For unknown reasons, some of the munitions detonated, which ignited 5,000 tons of explosives.—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2024 More than 250 Black sailors, punished for refusing to return to dangerous work after a powerful munitions explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 sailors in 1944, were fully exonerated by the Navy on Wednesday.—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for munition
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Word History
Etymology
Middle French, from Latin munition-, munitio, from munire to fortify, from moenia walls; akin to Latin murus wall and perhaps to Sanskrit minoti he builds, fastens
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