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Gunfire   /gˈənfˌaɪər/  /gˈənfˌaɪr/   Listen
Gunfire

noun
1.
The act of shooting a gun.  Synonym: gunshot.  "They retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"





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... sense was for the Turks largely a question of bringing to bear a superior force of artillery—a task that had only to be stated to reveal its difficulties. No force with smaller or fewer guns would hope to cross the Suez in the face of the concentration of artillery and naval gunfire that the British could bring to bear ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various


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