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1. (n.) shrapnel
fragments scattered by a bursting artillery shell, mine, or bomb.
2. shrapnel
a hollow projectile of the 19th century containing bullets and a bursting charge, designed to explode in the air and shower the target with missiles.
Etymology: (1800–10; after Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), English army officer, its inventor)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) shrapnel
shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight
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1. (adj) shrapnel
applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army
2. (noun) shrapnel
a shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively
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Sense: small pieces of metal from an explosive shell, bomb etc
His leg was torn open by shrapnel.
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 Afrikaans: skrapnel |
 Arabic: قَذيفَة شَظايا |
 Bulgarian: шрапнел |
 Brazilian: estilhaço |
 Czech: šrapnel, střepina bomby |
 German: das Schrapnell |
 Danish: sprængstykker |
 Greek: θραύσμα βλήματος |
 Spanish: metralla |
 Estonian: ðrapnell |
 Farsi: گلوله نارنجكي |
 Finnish: sirpale |
 French: éclats d'obus |
 Hebrew: רסס |
 Hindi: बम में से छिटकी गोलियां, |
 Croatian: šrapnel |
 Hungarian: srapnel |
 Indonesian: pecahan peluru, geranat, |
 Icelandic: sprengjuflís/-brot |
 Italian: schegge |
 Japanese: 砲弾の破片 |
 Korean: 유산탄 |
 Lithuanian: skeveldra |
 Latvian: šrapnelis |
 Malay: serpihan peluru atau bom |
 Dutch: granaatscherven |
 Norwegian: granatsplint |
 Polish: szrapnel |
 Persian: گلوله نارنجكي |
 Pashto: شرپنل، بمې ګولۍ |
 Portuguese: estilhaço |
 Romanian: şrapnel |
 Russian: шрапнель |
 Slovak: šrapnel; črepina bomby |
 Slovenian: šrapnel |
 Serbian: šrapnel |
 Swedish: granatsplitter |
 Thai: เศษโลหะที่อยู่ในปลอกกระสุ |
 Turkish: şarapnel |
 Taiwanese: 砲彈碎片 |
 Ukrainian: шрапнель |
 Urdu: بم وغیرہ کے ٹکڑے |
 Vietnamese: mảnh đạn |
 Chinese: 炮弹碎片，榴霰弹 |
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