grenade

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  1. noun A small bomb or explosive missile that is detonated by a fuse and thrown by hand or shot from a rifle or launcher.
  2. noun A glass container filled with a chemical such as tear gas that is dispersed when the container is thrown and broken.

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  • It was a flash-grenade, a rare type which was more or less experimental. —  125 - Mystery On Happy Bones
  • At first, Johnson thought the grenade was a dummy. —  The Daily News - News
  • Goetschius said it appears the grenade was a World War II-era fragmentation grenade. —  The Daily News - News
  • I feel so very very sad for Joe right now ... sure the guy who jumps on the grenade is a hero .. but you still feel sadness for him. —  BLACKFIVE
  • In addition to the rifle -- an AK-47 -- police found a grenade, a pistol, ammunition, loaded magazines "and several other items of concern to the police" in the Jeep Cherokee he was driving. —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. French, from Old French (pome) grenate, pomegranate (from its shape); see pomegranate.

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  1. Formerly sometimes granade (also grenado, granado, after the Spanish form); from Old French grenade, a ball of wildfire, French grenade, a grenade, from Spanish Portuguese granada = Italian granata (later D. granaat = G. Danish Swedish granat), a grenade (cf. Old French (pome) grenate, grenade, etc., French grenade = Spanish Portuguese granada, feminine, = Italian granato, masculine, a pomegranate), literally something containing grains or seeds, from the adjective, Spanish Portuguese granado = Italian granato, from Latin granatus, grained, containing seeds or grains, from granum, grain, seed: see grain. Cf. granate, garnet, granite, and pomegranate.
 

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