ammunition
The definition of ammunition is any object that can be discharged from a weapon, launched, or exploded.
(noun)A grenade is an example of ammunition.
Ammunition is defined as something that you can use to get someone to do what you want.
(noun)An example of ammunition is when you know your little brother snuck in late and you threaten to tell on him if he doesn't make you breakfast.
See ammunition in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- Obsolete any military supplies
- anything hurled by a weapon or exploded as a weapon, as bullets, gunpowder, shot, shells, bombs, grenades, rockets, etc.
- any means of attack or defense: the facts provided him with ammunition for his argument
Origin: Fr amunition, by faulty separation of la munition: see munitions
See ammunition in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- Projectiles, such as bullets and shot, together with their fuses and primers, that can be fired from guns or otherwise propelled.
- Nuclear, biological, chemical, or explosive material, such as rockets or grenades, that are used as weapons.
- An object used as a missile in offense or defense: Rocks were my only ammunition against the bear.
- A means of attacking or defending an argument, thesis, or point of view.
Origin:
Origin: Obsolete French amunition
Origin: , from l'amunition, the provisioning
Origin: , alteration of la munition
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Latin mūnītiō, mūnītiōn-, fortification; see munition
.Learn more about ammunition
