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ammunition
[ am-yuh-nish-uhn ]
noun
- the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon, as bombs or rockets, and especially shot, shrapnel, bullets, or shells fired by guns.
- the means of igniting or exploding such material, as primers, fuzes, and gunpowder.
- any material, means, weapons, etc., used in any conflict:
a crude ammunition of stones.
- information, advice, or supplies to help defend or attack a viewpoint, argument, or claim:
Give me some ammunition for the debate.
- Obsolete. any military supplies.
ammunition
/ ˌæmjʊˈnɪʃən /
noun
- any projectiles, such as bullets, rockets, etc, that can be discharged from a weapon
- bombs, missiles, chemicals, biological agents, nuclear materials, etc, capable of use as weapons
- any means of defence or attack, as in an argument
Word History and Origins
Origin of ammunition1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ammunition1
Example Sentences
One image featured by the account shows a young man draped in ammunition and cradling a rifle in his hands.
Scavengers often acquire toxic levels of lead from eating gut piles and dead animals which contain lead ammunition fragments.
If the public decides this process wasn’t trustworthy, it will give ammunition to efforts to discredit all vaccines.
Vista Outdoor, owner of brands including Bushnell rifle scopes and Federal ammunition, attributes its recent growth largely to the strength of the shooting sports market.
Though the new study is unscientific, it’s likely to give ammunition to transit and housing advocates who’ve argued that the groups are not representative and in need of reform.
But even when the jet will be able to shoot its gun, the F-35 barely carries enough ammunition to make the weapon useful.
It was with this ammunition that Australians organized protests at events where Blanc was scheduled to appear.
A burly Belgian, strapped with grenades and ammunition, towered above them.
When Louise and Bibi returned to their home, they found it strewn with ammunition and pockmarked with mortar craters.
When we asked about where the ammunition in the Korengal came from, all that Zalwar Khan ever said was, “They came from Allah.”
Hence, shortage of ammunition and shortage of water, which last was the worse felt to-day.
Also, some ominous comments on what armies spend and what Governments scrimp:—that is ammunition.
Every gun-shot fired gives me a pain in my heart and adds to the deadly anxiety I feel about our ammunition.
The Austrian parlementaire pointed out that it was hopeless to continue the struggle as he had neither provisions nor ammunition.
I am very sorry that you cannot send the proper howitzers, and still more sorry for the reason, that of ammunition.
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