Meaning

2 senses
  1. A small hand-held explosive device designed to be thrown at an enemy.

    Handgranate

    грана́таgranáta

    a grenade designed to be thrown by hand

  2. (archaic)A fire grenade (kind of portable fire extinguisher).

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Tom was killed by a hand grenade.

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  2. Toss a hand grenade into the trench.

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  3. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

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  4. Stefan found a very old hand grenade inside the safe.

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  5. How could a translator accidentally call a fire extinguisher a hand grenade?

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
explosive device:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
explosive device:

Forms

plural: hand grenades

Word family

1 related words
Relatedgrenade

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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