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单词 fusillade
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fusilladen.

Brit. /ˌfjuːzᵻˈleɪd/, /ˌfjuːzᵻˈlɑːd/, U.S. /ˌfjuzəˈlɑd/, /ˌfjuzəˈleɪd/, /ˌfjusəˈlɑd/, /ˌfjusəˈleɪd/
Forms: Also 1800s fusilade.
Etymology: < French fusillade, < fusiller to shoot, < fusil fusil n.2
A simultaneous discharge of firearms; a wholesale execution by this means.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > instance of > by specific method
fusillade1801
mitraillade1815
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > simultaneous
volley1573
salve1577
salvo1591
volley-shot1689
platoon1706
fusillade1801
fusillading1839
1801 Times in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1802) V. 53 From hence were shot those diavolinis and cardamoms, which have been so much admired for their happy illustration of the mitraille and fusillades.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) XI. 359 The enemy have a considerable force..and are keeping up a fusillade.
1835 T. B. Macaulay Sir James Mackintosh in Ess. (1887) 336 Then came..revolutionary tribunals, noyades, fusillades.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 267 This wanton fusillade must have been the result of a panic.
1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 16 Oct. 6/2 Notwithstanding the fusillade, no one..appears to have been hurt.
figurative and in extended use.1863 H. W. Longfellow Poet's Tale xxiii, in Tales Wayside Inn 200 O'er woodland crests, The ceaseless fusillade of terror ran.1871 B. Harte East & West 59 I heard the welcome rain, —A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane.1881 Geikie in Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 429 The men found relief in fusillades of swearing.1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Nov. 1/1 The din of controversy, the fusillade of personalities.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fusilladev.

Brit. /ˌfjuːzᵻˈleɪd/, /ˌfjuːzᵻˈlɑːd/, U.S. /ˌfjuzəˈlɑd/, /ˌfjuzəˈleɪd/, /ˌfjusəˈlɑd/, /ˌfjusəˈleɪd/
Etymology: < fusillade n.
transitive. To assault (a place), to shoot down (persons) by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > assail with gunfire > simultaneously
fusillade1816
volley1908
1816 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 15 56 A whole corps..were marched apart by one of Stofflet's officers and fusilladed.
1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. xiii. 115 Give them shriving if they want it; that done, fusillade them all.
1884 Cent. Mag. 28 560 The Mahdi's adherents fusilladed his palace at Khartoum.

Derivatives

fusiˈllading n.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > simultaneous
volley1573
salve1577
salvo1591
volley-shot1689
platoon1706
fusillade1801
fusillading1839
1839 T. Carlyle Chartism v. 47 Lyons fusilladings,..these..were but a new irrefragable preaching abroad of that.
fusiˈllader n.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > by type of shooting
hotshot1593
tirailleur1796
sharpshooter1802
sniper1824
pot-shooter1849
fusillader1878
pot-shotter1904
1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. iv. 119 The butcher of women and fusillader of children.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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