Definitions for barrage

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barrage bar·rage

Spelling: [buh-rahzh; especially British bar-ahzh

IPA: /bəˈrɑʒ; especially British ˈbær ɑʒ for 1, 2, 4, 5; ˈbɑr ɪdʒ for 3/

Barrage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in barrage (aabegrr).

Definitions for barrage

noun

1. Military. a heavy barrier of artillery fire to protect one's own advancing or retreating troops or to stop the advance of enemy troops.
2. an overwhelming quantity or explosion, as of words, blows, or criticisms:
3. Civil Engineering. an artificial obstruction in a watercourse to increase the depth of the water, facilitate irrigation, etc.
4. Mycology. an aversion response of sexually incompatible fungus cultures that are growing in proximity, revealed by a persistent growth gap between them.

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to a barrage.

Origin of barrage

1855-60; French: blocking, barring off, barrier, equivalent to barr(er) to bar¹ + -age -age; artillery sense by ellipsis from French

Examples for barrage

But we did not for a long time leave the influence of the barrage.

Our barrage had lifted, but we saw no sign of advancing infantry.

And all around him the anti-aircraft guns were placing a barrage of death.

It was on the brink of the barrage itself that I spoke to Bailey.

Styles quickly removed the photo from his Twitter account, but not before fielding a barrage of angry tweets.

I became numb to the barrage of smells: citrus disinfectants, burning trash, sewage, sweat, and diesel.

Ultimately, The Slap becomes something heartwarming amidst the barrage of stinging smacks.

The barrage and immediacy of these images magnifies these horrors.

What possible change can any one citizen instigate against that barrage of anti-intellectual, gun-toting paranoia?

I could fancy him grinning behind the sheen of his barrage at my question.