grenade

Borrowed from French grenade, from Old French grenate in the phrase pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), ultimately from Medieval Latin pomum (“apple”) + granatum (“having grains”). The -d developed in French under influence of Spanish granada. Doublet of garnet.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈneɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

grenade (plural grenades)

2. A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket.
3. (obsolete) A pomegranate.
4. (heraldry) A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
5. (slang) An unattractive girl.

• concussion grenade
• flash grenade
• fragmentation grenade, frag grenade
• grenado
• hand grenade
  • Mills bomb
  • pineapple grenade, pineapple
  • potato-masher grenade, potato masher
• rifle grenade
• rocket-propelled grenade, rocket propelled grenade
• rubber ball blast grenade
• smoke grenade
• stingball grenade
• stun grenade

• garnet
• grenado
• pomegranate

grenade (third-person singular simple present grenades, present participle grenading, simple past and past participle grenaded)

1. To use grenade(s) upon.
   • 2001, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, page 43:

     Some of the infantry got pinned down by it, and from cover kept up the battle by grenading rubble piles or any other likely spots ahead of them.

   • 2015, Gordon L. Rottman, The Hand Grenade, page 46:

     They advanced after grenading the next traverse, much like the British did.

2. (motor racing, slang, intransitive) Of an engine: to be violently wrecked so that the internal components burst out.

• Redange, agender, angered, derange, en garde, enraged, grandee

Substantive use of Old French grenate in pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), from dialectal northern Italian pom granat, from Medieval Latin pomum granatum (“seeded fruit”), from Latin grānātum. The -d- developed under influence from Spanish granada.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁə.nad/

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grenade f (plural grenades)

1. pomegranate
2. grenade
3. insignia, badge
4. (heraldry) pomegranate (Grenade de guerre is used in French to describe a grenade in English heraldry)

• grenadier
• grenadine

• “grenade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• dérange, dérangé

• IPA^(key): [ɡreˈnade]

grenade f pl

1. inflection of grenadă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

grenade

1. past indicative of grena