Definitions for grenade

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grenade gre·nade

Spelling: [gri-neyd]

IPA: /grɪˈneɪd/

Grenade is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in grenade (adeegnr).

Definitions for grenade

noun

1. a small shell containing an explosive and thrown by hand or fired from a rifle or launching device.
2. a similar missile containing a chemical, as for dispersing tear gas or fire-extinguishing substances.

verb (used with object)

1. to attack with a grenade or grenades.

Origin of grenade

1525-35; French Spanish granada pomegranate, special use of granado having grains Latin grānātus. See grain, -ate

Examples for grenade

We could say we were approached by a local bad guy with a grenade in his hand.

Just as the grenade was passing through the hole it exploded.

But if you were to have your head blown off by a grenade, you would be quite dead.

And the third was Mullah Adahdad, 45, an unarmed cleric who was attacked with a grenade and gunned down by several soldiers.

I am to meet Monsieur de Marsac at grenade on the day after to-morrow.

Holmes: “I had five seconds from the time the pin falls off from that grenade until it will explode.”

Then the grenade detonated, and he reflexively fired off “a couple” of shots in the chaos.

At grenade, too I learnt the truth—that you were not Lesperon.

Again I seized the wire with my left hand and hurled the grenade.

Morlock: “[Holmes] let off a burst from the saw, I pulled his ass down, the grenade goes off.”