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单词 grenade
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grenade

noun
/ɡrəˈneɪd/
/ɡrəˈneɪd/
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  1. a small bomb that can be thrown by hand or fired from a gun
    • His vehicle was damaged by a rocket-propelled grenade.
    see also fragmentation grenade, hand grenade, stun grenade
    Extra Examples
    • I tossed the grenade through the open door.
    • She was holding the grenade above her head, ready to throw.
    Topics War and conflictc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • hand
    • smoke
    • stun
    verb + grenade
    • be armed with
    • carry
    • have
    grenade + verb
    • land
    • explode
    • go off
    grenade + noun
    • attack
    • launcher
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    Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘pomegranate’): from French, alteration of Old French (pome) grenate, from pome ‘apple’ + grenate ‘pomegranate’, on the pattern of Spanish granada. The bomb was so named because it supposedly resembled a pomegranate in shape.
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