grenade

See also: Grenade, grénade, Grenåde, and grenadé

English

Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɡɹəˈneɪd/
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    • Rhymes: -eɪd

    Noun

    grenade (plural grenades)

    2. A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket.
    3. (obsolete) A pomegranate.
    4. (heraldry) A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
    5. (slang) An unattractive girl.

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    Verb

    grenade (third-person singular simple present grenades, present participle grenading, simple past and past participle grenaded)

    1. To use grenade(s) upon.
      • 2001, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, page 43:
        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.
      • 2015, Gordon L. Rottman, The Hand Grenade, page 46:
        They advanced after grenading the next traverse, much like the British did.
    2. (motor racing, slang, intransitive) Of an engine: to be violently wrecked so that the internal components burst out.

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    French

    Etymology

      Substantive use of Old French grenate in pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), from dialectal northern Italian pom granat, from Medieval Latin pomum granatum (“seeded fruit”), from Latin grānātum. The -d- developed under influence from Spanish granada.

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      Noun

      grenade f (plural grenades)

      1. pomegranate
      2. grenade
      3. insignia, badge
      4. (heraldry) pomegranate (Grenade de guerre is used in French to describe a grenade in English heraldry)

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      • → English: grenade
      • → Malagasy: angaranady
      • → Romanian: grenadă

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      Romanian

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): [ɡreˈnade]

      Noun

      grenade f pl

      1. inflection of grenadă:
        1. indefinite plural
        2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

      Swedish

      Verb

      grenade

      1. past indicative of grena
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