Meaning

4 senses
  1. A thermite grenade.

  2. A white phosphorus grenade.

  3. A firebomb grenade.

  4. (obsolete)A glass bulb filled with caustic and often carcinogenic liquid chemicals that, when thrown and broken in a fire, smother the fire by removing oxygen.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Israeli police fired stun grenades inside the al-Aqsa Mosque.

  2. Israeli troops fired stun grenades at Muslim worshipers at the al-Aqsa Mosque.

Forms

plural: fire grenades
Singularfire grenade
Pluralfire grenades

regular

Word family

1 related words
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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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