'Barrage' definitions:
Definition of 'barrage'
(from WordNet)
noun
The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written); "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake" [syn: barrage, bombardment, outpouring, onslaught]
noun
The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing" [syn: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling]
verb
Address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage; "The speaker was barraged by an angry audience"; "The governor was bombarded with requests to grant a pardon to the convicted killer" [syn: bombard, barrage]
Definition of 'Barrage'
From: GCIDE
- Barrage \Bar"rage\, n. [F., fr. barrer to bar, from barre bar.] (Engin.) An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or watercourse to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'barrage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aim at,
- antiaircraft barrage,
- arch dam,
- backstop,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank,
- bar,
- barrier,
- bear-trap dam,
- beat,
- beating,
- beaver dam,
- blast,
- blitz,
- bombard,
- bombardment,
- boom,
- box barrage,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- broadside,
- buffer,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- burst,
- cannon,
- cannonade,
- cannonry,
- cofferdam,
- commence firing,
- creeping barrage,
- dam,
- defense,
- dike,
- ditch,
- drum,
- drum music,
- drumbeat,
- drumfire,
- drumming,
- earthwork,
- embankment,
- emergency barrage,
- enfilade,
- eruption,
- fence,
- fire a volley,
- fire at,
- fire upon,
- flare,
- flutter,
- fusillade,
- gate,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- hail,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- iron curtain,
- jam,
- jetty,
- leaping weir,
- levee,
- logjam,
- milldam,
- moat,
- mole,
- mortar,
- mortar barrage,
- mound,
- normal barrage,
- open fire,
- open up on,
- outburst,
- palpitation,
- paradiddle,
- parapet,
- patter,
- pepper,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- pop at,
- portcullis,
- pound,
- pounding,
- pulsation,
- rake,
- rampart,
- rat-a-tat,
- rat-tat,
- rat-tat-tat,
- rataplan,
- rattattoo,
- roadblock,
- rock-fill dam,
- roll,
- rub-a-dub,
- ruff,
- ruffle,
- salvo,
- seawall,
- shell,
- shoot,
- shoot at,
- shower,
- shutter dam,
- snipe,
- snipe at,
- spatter,
- splutter,
- spray,
- sputter,
- staccato,
- standing barrage,
- stone wall,
- storm,
- strafe,
- stream,
- surge,
- take aim at,
- tat-tat,
- tattoo,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- thrum,
- thumping,
- tom-tom,
- tornado,
- torpedo,
- volley,
- wall,
- weir,
- wicket dam,
- work,
- zero in on