Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The shooting or exploding of artillery shells.
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- noun
Artillery bombardment .
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- noun shooting artillery shells
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Examples
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The rocket and shellfire for a third day at the port is preventing international aid ships from reaching the city that is controlled by rebels but surrounded by government forces.
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The rocket and shellfire for a third day at the port is preventing international aid ships from reaching the city that is controlled by rebels but surrounded by government forces.
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The rocket and shellfire for a third day at the port is preventing international aid ships from reaching the city that is controlled by rebels but surrounded by government forces.
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The following day the capital was under shellfire.
Reluctant revolutionary: the rocky road of Venustiano Carranza (1859–1920) 2008
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The following day the capital was under shellfire.
Reluctant revolutionary: the rocky road of Venustiano Carranza (1859–1920) 2008
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From here, a retired military man, a saintly figure suffering from cancer called Jerry Hume, working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ran a lifeline of basic supplies (plus the less essential, occasional journalist) into the inferno of shellfire.
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Israeli shelling kills 2 Gaza militants: Israeli shellfire killed two Palestinian militants and wounded six people, including a 10-year-old girl, in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers and an official with a militant group said.
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The uproar reached a climax in late afternoon—“We had given ourselves up for lost, since we were just about to be discovered and killed”—when, after a sudden burst of shellfire, the noise stopped.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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Israeli shelling kills 2 Gaza militants: Israeli shellfire killed two Palestinian militants and wounded six people, including a 10-year-old girl, in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers and an official with a militant group said.
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Israeli shelling kills 2 Gaza militants: Israeli shellfire killed two Palestinian militants and wounded six people, including a 10-year-old girl, in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers and an official with a militant group said.
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