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volley has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 7 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is ground stroke.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
be dispersed in a volley
“gun shots volleyed at the attackers”
hit before it touches the ground
“volley the tennis ball”
discharge in, or as if in, a volley
“the attackers volleyed gunshots at the civilians”
utter rapidly
“volley a string of curses”
a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for volley come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.