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GRENADE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grenade mean?
• GRENADE (noun)
The noun GRENADE has 1 sense:
1. a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile
Familiarity information: GRENADE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("grenade" is a kind of...):
bomb (an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grenade"):
hand grenade (a grenade designed to be thrown by hand)
rifle grenade (a grenade that is thrown from a launching device attached to the barrel of a rifle)
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