cannonade

American  

[kan-uh-nayd] / ˌkæn əˈneɪd /

noun

1. a continued discharge of cannon, especially during an attack.

2. an attack, as of invective or censure, suggestive of cannon fire; barrage.

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verb (used with object)

cannonaded, cannonading

1. to attack continuously with or as if with cannon

verb (used without object)

cannonaded, cannonading

1. to discharge like continuous cannon fire.

cannonade British  

/ ˌkænəˈneɪd /

noun

1. an intense and continuous artillery bombardment

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verb

1. to attack (a target) with cannon

Etymology

Origin of cannonade

1645–55; < French canonnade < Italian cannonata, equivalent to cannon ( e ) cannon + -ata -ade ¹

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Example Sentences

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cannonade cannonaded cannonading

But “Structures for Life” brings a cannonade of color to Queens, and it’s one of two opportunities to rediscover Saint Phalle in New York right now.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021

It’s unlikely any previous California governor has faced such a cannonade of calamities — a grand slam of disasters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2019

But Americans chose to cannonade each other with pamphlets, not artillery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2018

Before walking in, Charlotte gave a wee royal hand wave to the cannonade of cameras.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2018

Mordred’s cannonade, which he was to keep up through the darkness until the morning’s battle, began to thud and bump outside.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

At the Garden itself, packed with 20,000 screaming fans, the Stones presented their Pied Piper with a huge birthday cake, then cannonaded him with custard pies that splattered over the front-row customers.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lightning burned streaks in the sky, and thunder cannonaded.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

But the defenders quenched the conflagrations and cannonaded no less bravely.

From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

These Hindoo fortifications have, however, lost their military importance for Europeans, as they are on all sides "overcrowed," as Rittmeister Dugald Dalgetty would say, by eminences, from which they could easily be cannonaded.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

"His footwork," wrote the Associated Press reporter Whitney Martin, "consists of moving forward in a direct line to a point where he is within cannonading range."

From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2012

McMurtry neatly establishes both that Shorty has a firmer grip on things than his master and that Duane, though distracted, is not a bad egg; there is no dog in the doghouse he is cannonading.

From Time Magazine Archive

One night a fortnight ago the worn men of Major General Alexander Rodintsev's 13th Guards Division crouched in their holes in the northwest district of Stalingrad and listened to sudden thunderous cannonading.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like Michigan, like Illinois, a cannonading team from the University of Pennsylvania gave proof that football games are apt to be won in the first half.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cannonading was kept up all night, lighting up the forest scenery with its fire, and knocking loudly on that feeble fort for admission.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

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