Gunfire

Quick meaning: Gunfire is a noun meaning Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.

Meaning

Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.

More Meanings

1. (military) The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.
2. (military slang) Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.
3. (chiefly military) The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.

Example Sentences

Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire.

Sergeant, direct your gunfire toward that copse of trees.

Killing people became much easier and faster once armies started using gunfire.

They had only in them the rolled mattresses, the neatly piled bed-boards and the empty tea-buckets of the orderly-men, empied of their last gun-fire.

Word Forms

• gunfires

Synonyms for gunfire

Depending on context, synonyms include gunshot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gunshot, shoot, sniping, shooting, firepower, bullet.

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