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grenade
/ɡɹəˈneɪd/
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What does grenade mean?
noun
- A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket.
- A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
- (slang) An unattractive girl.
More meanings (3)
verb
- To use grenade(s) upon.
- (slang) Of an engine: to be violently wrecked so that the internal components burst out.
noun
- (obsolete) A pomegranate.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɡɹəˈneɪd/
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He had picked up the scrap of a grenade that had killed an aide-de-camp standing near the commander in chief and had taken it to his commander.
So bitter was this opposition that Dr. Boylston's life was in danger; it was considered unsafe for him to be out of his house in the evening; a lighted grenade was even thrown into the house of Cotton Mather, who had favoured the new practice, and had sheltered another clergyman who had submitted himself to it.