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Meaning of barrage

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  barrage
      n 1: 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}]
      2: 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}]
      v 1: 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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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