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shellfire

/shel-fahyuhr/US // ˈʃɛlˌfaɪər //UK // (ˈʃɛlˌfaɪə) //

炮火,炮击,炮轰,炮火攻击

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Military.

    • : the firing of explosive shells or projectiles.

Examples

  • That was before they knew the exact meaning of shellfire well.

  • These men had already seen what shellfire could do to knock the beauty out of old houses and quiet streets.

  • They had been employed cutting trees, and had been under our own shellfire.

  • The railways were choked with military transport or destroyed by shellfire.

  • Shellfire was being concentrated on the airstrips, striving to block them, plow them up with craters.