Synonyms for barrage
bəˈrɑʒ; esp. Brit. ˈbær ɑʒ for 1, 2; ˈbɑr ɪdʒ for 3bar·rage

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1. barrage, bombardment, outpouring, onslaughtnoun

   the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)

   "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake"

   Synonyms:
   battery, onrush, overflow, spring, fountain, onset, shelling, bombardment, discharge, gush, onslaught, flood, run, attack, bombing, natural spring, barrage fire, outpouring, flush, outflow

2. barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shellingverb

   the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target

   "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing"

   Synonyms:
   barrage fire, outpouring, stamp battery, electric battery, bombardment, onslaught, shelling, assault and battery, battery, bombing

3. bombard, barrageverb

   address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage

   "The speaker was barraged by an angry audience"; "The governor was bombarded with requests to grant a pardon to the convicted killer"

   Synonyms:
   pelt, bombard, bomb

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1. salvonoun

   Submitted by Providence on July 15, 2023  

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1. List of paraphrases for "barrage":

   dam, roadblock, flurry

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1. The IDF:

   After terrorists in Gaza Strip fired a barrage of rockets at central and southern Israel over the past few hours, we just struck three Hamas terrorists in Gaza Strip.

2. Charlie Sheen:

   And I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks and of sub-truths and very harmful and mercurial stories that are about the( alleged) threatening the health of so many others, which couldn't be farther from the truth.

3. Tal Ben-Shahar:

   One of the best ways to deal with the depressing and demoralizing impact of the constant barrage of bad news is distraction. We are not burying our head in the sand when we engage in activities that take us away from an otherwise distressing situation.

4. Kate Andersen Brower:

   Pat Nixon was completely in the bunker during Watergate, which dragged on for two years. She stopped reading the newspapers at the height of the barrage and blamed others, in this case Republicans, for trying to bring her husband down, at one point the West Wing staff cut off her newspapers in an effort to shield her from the headlines. But she knew exactly what was going on and she defended her husband until the end.

5. Mmusi Maimane:

   I had to endure a barrage of racial insults. What you've got to do is to steel your back and carry on, i recognize that they wanted to do everything in their power to win, to a point when you recognize it's a tactical thing to divide the nation along racial lines.