• n.
    ⦿the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
    lexical concept
  • the shelling went on for hours without pausing
  • they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:barrage
  2. enl:barrage fire
  3. enl:battery
  4. enl:bombardment
  5. enl:shelling
wn:interlingual indexili:i40568

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • barragebarrage fireshelling
  • barragebarrage firebatterybombardmentshelling