#536 fusillade

fusillade- a simultaneous or rapid continual discharge of firearms; a sudden outburst as of criticism

C19 from French, from fusiller to shoot

The soldiers, part of Mexico's ongoing effort to curb narco-trafficking violence, were met with a fusillade of grenades and gunfire.

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