Hand-grenade definition

A small grenade thrown by hand and exploded by a timed fuze or by impact.
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(military) A small hand-held explosive device designed to be thrown at the enemy.
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Noun

Singular:
hand-grenade
Plural:
hand-grenades

Hand-grenade Sentence Examples

  • Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke has lobbed a hand grenade into the fragile peace with a brutal, personal attack on Chancellor Gordon Brown.

  • At this point their dog discovered a live hand grenade.

  • Also, he had been in Vietnam and had a hand grenade explode near him, leaving him with shrapnel in his pancreas.

  • The standard British fragmentation hand grenade after the Spring of 1915 was?

  • A rather desperate Dewandre discussed the development of the new style hand grenade and asked for Mills ' technical advice.

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