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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fusillade .
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Examples
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The unfortunate Native, expressing no opinion, suffered dreadfully; not merely in his moral feelings, which were regularly fusilladed by the Major every hour in the day, and riddled through and through, but in his sensitiveness to bodily knocks and bumps, which was kept continually on the stretch.
Dombey and Son 2007
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Full page in garish colour, body of General Freg fusilladed by troops still loyal to General Prado.
Mexico Michener, James 1992
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He is taught how to kill men; he is threatened, insulted, put in prison and told that it is an honor; and, if he does not care for that sort of honor, he is fusilladed.
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We saw and fusilladed the Pom-poms through this smoke at 10,000 yards with the 4. 7's, and at 5 p.m. we had the whole ground in our possession.
With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service
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Each carries a rifle, and every living thing that appears on the banks or on the water is fusilladed with Winchesters until it is dead or out of sight.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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In the evening and night the latter showed special activity, star rockets and other fireworks being used to illumine the opposing positions, which were heavily fusilladed.
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The officers fusilladed the mountain of flesh, succeeding only in rousing it to added fury.
Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody Wetmore, Helen C 1899
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The officers fusilladed the mountain of flesh, succeeding only in rousing it to added fury.
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Later, he comfortably fusilladed the windows of his most intimate friend.
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Nobunaga's men took shelter themselves behind palisades and fusilladed the enemy so hotly that the old-fashioned hand-to-hand fighting became almost impossible.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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