Definitions for fusillade

fusillade fu·sil·lade

Spelling: [fyoo-suh-leyd, -lahd, -zuh-]
IPA: /ˈfyu səˌleɪd, -ˌlɑd, -zə-/

Fusillade is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 417 anagrams from letters in fusillade (adefillsu).

Definitions for fusillade

noun

  1. a simultaneous or continuous discharge of firearms.
  2. a general discharge or outpouring of anything:

verb (used with object)

  1. to attack or shoot by a fusillade.

Origin of fusillade

1795-1805; French, equivalent to fusill(er) to shoot (see fusil1) + -ade -ade1

Examples for fusillade

With mad cries and a fusillade of shots, the bandits charged.

Then I heard the very crackling of the wood, like a fusillade from a great distance.

He followed with a fusillade of questions in strange and varying tongues.

They can expect a fusillade of incoming from Gillibrand and her colleagues.

But he had scarcely turned his head when a fusillade burst out.

A fusillade of shots and a babel of yelling from outside interrupted his words.

Out I went in a fusillade of courtesies and sought a chauffeur.

They, too, fled before the fusillade and the hail of shot that descended on them.

But the fusillade had begun afresh, this time on the left, in the olive plantations.

Through this fusillade the army came down to the west fork of the Shenandoah.

Word Value for fusillade
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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