barrage

1. 1.

   address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage

   “The speaker was barraged by an angry audience”

   “The governor was bombarded with requests to grant a pardon to the convicted killer”

   Synonymsbombard

   Broaderattack

Other forms of barrage

plural

barrages·

past tense

barraged·

present participle

barraging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about barrage

What does barrage mean?

barrage means "the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barrage?

barrage has 2 syllables: bar-rage. The stress falls on "rage". In IPA it is /bɚˈɑʒ/.

What is another word for barrage?

Close synonyms include bombardment, outpouring, onslaught, barrage fire, battery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barrage a common word?

barrage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with barrage?

2 words rhyme with barrage. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.