grenade

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket.
  2. A pomegranate. obsolete
  3. A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
  4. An unattractive girl. slang
动词 v.
  1. To use grenade(s) upon.
    — Some of the infantry got pinned down by it, and from cover kept up the battle by grenading rubble piles or any other likely spots ahead of them.
  2. Of an engine: to be violently wrecked so that the internal components burst out. intransitive,slang

词形变化

grenades plural grenades present,singular,third-person grenading participle,present grenaded participle,past grenaded past

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French grenade, from Old French grenate in the phrase pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), ultimately from Medieval Latin pomum (“apple”) + granatum (“having grains”). The -d developed in French under influence of Spanish granada. Doublet of garnet.
词源 2
Borrowed from French grenade, from Old French grenate in the phrase pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), ultimately from Medieval Latin pomum (“apple”) + granatum (“having grains”). The -d developed in French under influence of Spanish granada. Doublet of garnet.
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