Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small bomb or explosive missile that is detonated by a fuse and thrown by hand or shot from a rifle or launcher.
- noun A glass container filled with a chemical such as tear gas that is dispersed when the container is thrown and broken.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An explosive missile of any kind, usually smaller than a bomb or bombshell, and not discharged from a cannon, but thrown by hand or by a shovel or fork.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies.
- noun A portable fire extinguisher consisting of a glass bottle containing water and gas. It is thrown into the flames. Called also
fire grenade . - noun grenades of various sizes, which, when used, are rolled over the pararapet in a trough.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
pomegranate . - noun A small
explosive device , designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The only expertise required to throw a grenade is the bare minimum needed to find cover before that small number is reached.
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Nine out of ten times, the grenade is a grenade because she's ugly and fat.
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Bomb: A bomb, also known as a grenade, is thrown as a splash weapon.
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Note 15: Although Raggio (Gubbio Studiolo, 114) correctly identifies this explosive device as a petard, the term grenade is appropriate due to a play of words and images (with pomegranates) discussed in chapter 6. back
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