shrapnel

Converse of object

• collect: We were bombed rather a lot, but I enjoyed collecting shrapnel.
• send: He persisted in sending shrapnel - a useless weapon in trench warfare.
• have: By the time Cindy's year in Iraq was up, she had shrapnel in her arm.
• fly: Yesterday they were content to rediscover the art of holding leads by beating Leeds in a match not short of flying shrapnel.
• lodge: And Ken Stott's Philippe lapses regularly into unconsciousness due to shrapnel lodged in his brain.

Converse of subject

• injure: A man was injured by shrapnel in High Street, Jarrow.
• wound: Men watched their fellows being blown apart or dreadfully wounded by shrapnel.
• hit: Thinking he had been hit by shrapnel I went over.
• kill: During the night a twenty six year old man was killed by shrapnel from a grenade - the first death of the events.
• damage: A house in South Shields was slightly damaged by shrapnel.

Adjective modifier

deadly: The blast ripped into the sides of buildings turning windows into blizzards of deadly shrapnel.

Modifies a noun

• wound: He had received shrapnel wounds to his left shoulder.
• shell: They devised the idea of placing an irritant chemical among the metal balls in a shrapnel shell.
• bomb: They dropped 172 shells, many of which hit their target, plus several thousand shrapnel bombs.
• ball: Artillery shell filled with shrapnel balls about 2cm in diameter.
• damage: Shrapnel damage to the bridge can still be seen.
• bullet: General Findlay, hit on the head by shrapnel bullet.

Noun used with modifier

mortar: It was a piece of mortar shrapnel, enough to just penetrate the skin and cause me some pain.

Preposition: from

• shell: Seven patients were injured by shrapnel from shells, grenades or rockets, and all but two were soldiers.
• bomb: The King was shown a piece of shrapnel from a bomb that fell on the Cathedral.