cannoned

verb

past tense of cannon
as in cannonaded

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cannoned
  1. barraged
  2. blitzed
  3. bombarded
  4. buffeted
  5. battered
  6. ambushed
  7. bombed
  8. waylaid
Verb
  • Each character has totally justified and totally unjustified reasons for resenting one another, and the sensation of absorbing those contrasting opinions is like being in a stuck bumper car, barraged and battered from all sides.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Checchi, in particular, barraged voters with an unrelenting flood of ads.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026
Definition of barraged
Verb
  • During the games, there’s cuts to the wives and a large group of family in a suite partying hard while the QB is getting blitzed on the field.
    — Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • In the simplest of iterations, all the sauce ingredients can be combined in a food processor and blitzed until smooth.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
Definition of blitzed
Verb
  • The party is now getting bombarded by GOP attack ads accusing its members of perpetuating insider trading.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 29 July 2026
  • Nick Jackson went back to selling a concussion on the outside as a conflicted Will Ospreay bombarded Nick Jackson with strikes.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of bombarded
Verb
  • ServiceNow has been buffeted by fears of the ‘SaaSpocalypse,’ or that autonomous AI agents will undercut demand for enterprise software.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 July 2026
  • During Argentina’s semifinal victory, against England, Messi, who is still playing at the unearthly age of thirty-nine, spent the opening hour of the match being buffeted and bypassed by the action.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of buffeted
Verb
  • Along the narrow hallway, bookshelves burst with first editions of John Updike, battered Stephen Kings, graphic novels, dime-store paperbacks, board games, books about mythology, children’s fairy tales, and Warhammer rule sets.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026
  • Footage shows the lifeguard holding onto the boy even as the two repeatedly get battered by waves that keep pulling them back into the surf.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 28 July 2026
Definition of battered
Verb
  • The military convoy was leaving the northern town of Anefis and headed to Gao city when it was ambushed in the Sahara desert.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
  • Nolan’s film has Telemachus and his trusted advisor, Mentor (Ryan Hurst), ambushed by the suitors at a temple dedicated to Apollo.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 July 2026
Definition of ambushed
Verb
  • The Saudi Air Force bombed Sanaa Airport on July 13 after a Houthi delegation returning from former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral tried to land, violating the air blockade.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 29 July 2026
  • The war ended after NATO bombed Serbia for 78 days in 1999, eventually forcing a withdrawal of its troops from the territory.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
Definition of bombed
Verb
  • Or the family might have simply gotten waylaid by other plans.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 27 July 2026
  • That voyage is soon waylaid, however, when Ulysses' son, Telemachus, is abducted to become a sacrifice to a giant robot Cyclops.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of waylaid
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