fusillade
noun
[ ˌfjuːzɪˈleɪd ]
• a series of shots fired or missiles thrown all at the same time or in quick succession.
• "marchers had to dodge a fusillade of missiles"
Similar:
salvo,
volley,
barrage,
bombardment,
cannonade,
battery,
burst,
blast,
hail,
shower,
rain,
stream,
broadside,
blitz,
discharge,
fusillade
verb
• fire a fusillade at (a place or person).
• "the Mahdi's adherents fusilladed his palace at Khartoum"
Origin:
early 19th century: from French, from fusiller ‘to shoot’, from fusil (see fusil1).
