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Definition of machine gun in English: machine gunnoun An automatic gun that fires bullets in rapid succession for as long as the trigger is pressed. as modifier machine-gun fire Example sentencesExamples - He then leapt fifty feet into the air to avoid the machine gun fire from the SWAT team.
- The most important of these were the bolt action rifle and the machine gun, and hand grenades and mortars.
- It ends with Cusack throwing grenades and firing a machine gun to save her from pirates.
- In such an extreme situation the Raptor sounds like a heavy machine gun firing in the distance.
- Young Michel was proud of himself; he'd learned to fire a machine gun and hit a target.
- A soldier on the back of the truck saw him and fired his machine gun, hitting him in the chest with a half dozen rounds.
- She felt several bullets strike her helmet as she fired the machine gun at the remaining attacking soldiers.
- They then had to race back to the other end of the course, re-assemble the machine gun and then fire at a target.
- Suddenly, machine gun bullets were fired and Michaela fell to the floor.
- The helicopter began to fire a machine gun at Lazarus so he ran and jumped into the car.
- It was a giant machine gun that fired plastic bullets and grenades.
- The M60 is a machine gun which while fired continually causes the screen to violently shake which is a nice touch.
- Mace barely had time to roll out of the way before the machine gun began to fire down on him.
- He was busy filming when an Israeli tank suddenly appeared and fired a machine gun.
- Most of the machine gun fire blew past him and only a few stray shots managed to hit him.
- He turned and began to fire his machine gun wildly before he was blasted full of holes.
- A special vehicle has been developed, armed with a machine gun and multiple tear gas launchers.
- Sometimes the guards would mount a heavy machine gun and fire away indiscriminately.
- When they were 20 yards from the pillbox a machine gun opened fire from the slit.
- The young soldier said he also fired on a machine gun station and saw an Iraqi soldier blown out by the force of the hit.
verb [with object]Shoot with a machine gun. a corporal had been machine-gunned in an ambush Example sentencesExamples - The largest children's hospital was hit by a blockbuster bomb in the first attack, then by incendiary bombs in the second wave and finally machine-gunned by US Mustangs in the third attack.
- This should not be surprising, insofar as he grew up under extreme Baath repression, and his father and older brothers were machine-gunned down only 5 years ago.
- In 1997, 58 tourists, including five from the UK, were killed when terrorists machine-gunned a group of foreigners in the historic city of Luxor.
- There was oil on the water and we were being machine-gunned.
- We were bombed, machine-gunned by the planes, without respite.
- Like World War I generals, the coaches threw talented but inexperienced young skiers into the trenches of the World Cup, where they'd get machine-gunned by the Austrians, Swiss, and Norwegians.
- Recognized by military officers, he was tortured, beaten, electrocuted and his hands broken before he was machine-gunned to death.
- I've always assumed that every day, unbeknownst to us, doors were being kicked in and terrorists were being machine-gunned.
- European Union External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten noted at that time that he was repulsed by the sheer savagery of the attack where sleeping infants were machine-gunned to death at close range.
- As they edged out Coke in the polls, he concluded a seminar by machine-gunning a Coke vending machine.
- At 11: 30 that night, he was machine-gunned, taking six hits: one that took off his middle right finger (he managed to hide the missing finger on screen), four in his leg and one in the chest.
- They stood aside last Sunday when the Sadr City demonstration against the closure of a newspaper was machine-gunned from helicopters - 32 people were killed and hundreds injured.
- In the West Bank, Palestinian militants publicly machine-gunned a ‘collaborator’ with Israel before hundreds of approving spectators in a town square.
- Several hundred were machine-gunned in the Santiago soccer stadium; others shot to death in the street.
- People were getting shot all over the place but you couldn't see a drop of blood on their clean white shirts (even when they had been machine-gunned from three different directions).
- She got a shock and had to retreat indoors quickly, as there on the bridge was an armoured car with Tans aboard machine-gunning her roof, probably in reprisal for some attach made on them some other place.
- Two or three of our prisoners escaped but were caught and brought back to the camp to be machine-gunned down in front of us.
- Then a bugle rang out and instantly guns and machine-guns opened fire on the helpless fishing-craft, and a hail of missiles fell.
- Around noon, they began taking the women in groups, separating them from their children and machine-gunning them.
- Some were shot in their homes; others were machine-gunned from helicopters; still others were cut down in ditches.
Synonyms bomb, shell, bombard, fire on, open fire on, machine-gun, rake with gunfire, blitz, enfilade, pound, rake, pepper
Derivatives noun məˈʃiːnˌɡʌnə The last thing I saw before I rolled the bike was the machine-gunner at Hyde Park Corner - a callipygian figure dominating the war memorial on the traffic island. Example sentencesExamples - The pain of the needle felt good to the 40-year-old former Army sergeant, whose memories of his nine months as a machine-gunner in Iraq had left him, he said, ‘feeling dead inside.’
- Nobody wonders: What of those machine-gunners?
- On their orders, 83 American prisoners of war had been murdered by Waffen S.S. machine-gunners.
- ‘I was a machine-gunner in France during World War II,’ Schulz explained.
Definition of machine gun in US English: machine gunnounməˈSHēn ɡənməˈʃin ɡən An automatic gun that fires bullets in rapid succession for as long as the trigger is pressed. as modifier machine-gun fire Example sentencesExamples - He turned and began to fire his machine gun wildly before he was blasted full of holes.
- The M60 is a machine gun which while fired continually causes the screen to violently shake which is a nice touch.
- A soldier on the back of the truck saw him and fired his machine gun, hitting him in the chest with a half dozen rounds.
- He was busy filming when an Israeli tank suddenly appeared and fired a machine gun.
- Young Michel was proud of himself; he'd learned to fire a machine gun and hit a target.
- The most important of these were the bolt action rifle and the machine gun, and hand grenades and mortars.
- It ends with Cusack throwing grenades and firing a machine gun to save her from pirates.
- He then leapt fifty feet into the air to avoid the machine gun fire from the SWAT team.
- Suddenly, machine gun bullets were fired and Michaela fell to the floor.
- Most of the machine gun fire blew past him and only a few stray shots managed to hit him.
- Sometimes the guards would mount a heavy machine gun and fire away indiscriminately.
- When they were 20 yards from the pillbox a machine gun opened fire from the slit.
- It was a giant machine gun that fired plastic bullets and grenades.
- They then had to race back to the other end of the course, re-assemble the machine gun and then fire at a target.
- She felt several bullets strike her helmet as she fired the machine gun at the remaining attacking soldiers.
- In such an extreme situation the Raptor sounds like a heavy machine gun firing in the distance.
- A special vehicle has been developed, armed with a machine gun and multiple tear gas launchers.
- The helicopter began to fire a machine gun at Lazarus so he ran and jumped into the car.
- The young soldier said he also fired on a machine gun station and saw an Iraqi soldier blown out by the force of the hit.
- Mace barely had time to roll out of the way before the machine gun began to fire down on him.
verbməˈSHēn ɡənməˈʃin ɡən [with object]Shoot with a machine gun. a corporal had been machine-gunned in an ambush Example sentencesExamples - Some were shot in their homes; others were machine-gunned from helicopters; still others were cut down in ditches.
- Like World War I generals, the coaches threw talented but inexperienced young skiers into the trenches of the World Cup, where they'd get machine-gunned by the Austrians, Swiss, and Norwegians.
- I've always assumed that every day, unbeknownst to us, doors were being kicked in and terrorists were being machine-gunned.
- They stood aside last Sunday when the Sadr City demonstration against the closure of a newspaper was machine-gunned from helicopters - 32 people were killed and hundreds injured.
- We were bombed, machine-gunned by the planes, without respite.
- Then a bugle rang out and instantly guns and machine-guns opened fire on the helpless fishing-craft, and a hail of missiles fell.
- European Union External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten noted at that time that he was repulsed by the sheer savagery of the attack where sleeping infants were machine-gunned to death at close range.
- At 11: 30 that night, he was machine-gunned, taking six hits: one that took off his middle right finger (he managed to hide the missing finger on screen), four in his leg and one in the chest.
- Two or three of our prisoners escaped but were caught and brought back to the camp to be machine-gunned down in front of us.
- In the West Bank, Palestinian militants publicly machine-gunned a ‘collaborator’ with Israel before hundreds of approving spectators in a town square.
- Around noon, they began taking the women in groups, separating them from their children and machine-gunning them.
- As they edged out Coke in the polls, he concluded a seminar by machine-gunning a Coke vending machine.
- She got a shock and had to retreat indoors quickly, as there on the bridge was an armoured car with Tans aboard machine-gunning her roof, probably in reprisal for some attach made on them some other place.
- The largest children's hospital was hit by a blockbuster bomb in the first attack, then by incendiary bombs in the second wave and finally machine-gunned by US Mustangs in the third attack.
- People were getting shot all over the place but you couldn't see a drop of blood on their clean white shirts (even when they had been machine-gunned from three different directions).
- There was oil on the water and we were being machine-gunned.
- Several hundred were machine-gunned in the Santiago soccer stadium; others shot to death in the street.
- Recognized by military officers, he was tortured, beaten, electrocuted and his hands broken before he was machine-gunned to death.
- This should not be surprising, insofar as he grew up under extreme Baath repression, and his father and older brothers were machine-gunned down only 5 years ago.
- In 1997, 58 tourists, including five from the UK, were killed when terrorists machine-gunned a group of foreigners in the historic city of Luxor.
Synonyms bomb, shell, bombard, fire on, open fire on, machine-gun, rake with gunfire, blitz, enfilade, pound, rake, pepper
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