cannonaded

verb

Definition of cannonadednext
past tense of cannonade
as in bombed
to use bombs or artillery against the artillery cannonaded the enemy encampment all night

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cannonaded
  1. bombed
  2. battered
  3. attacked
  4. bombarded
  5. shelled
Verb
  • The Syrian civil war, up to last week, was the tedious winnowing process in which the Assad government bombed, killed, and terrorized Syrians into either fleeing the country or submitting to him.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The memoir is also getting review-bombed on sites like Goodreads with one-star ratings before anyone has read a page.
    Timothy Bella, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of bombed
Verb
  • Reports in British media suggest the area was affected by flooding at the time of the incident, as Storm Darragh battered the United Kingdom with strong winds and rain over the weekend.
    Ben Church, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • His spirit was worn down and battered but never broken.
    Kelli Bender, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of battered
Verb
  • Popular on Variety However, much like Qatar — which hosted the World Cup in 2022 — FIFA’s decision has already been attacked by human rights groups.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The accuser says she was attacked by the two rappers at an after-show party following the Video Music Awards.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of attacked
Verb
  • Entrepreneurs are bombarded with messages of relentless success, and every social media post seems to celebrate another victory.
    Mark Kane, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • In summary, the scale of the national debt to worry about, is only 30% of the size of the topline number we all get bombarded with as the agent of the next economic cataclysm.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of bombarded
Verb
  • One theory holds that since shells frequently prevent tortoises from being eaten by predators, shelled species tend to live longer, and over time that may have helped to produce evolutionary pressures to age more slowly.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Some got to a railway point; the tracks were shelled.
    Boris Fishman, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of shelled
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