fusillade's Usage Examples:

Narbona was mortally wounded in the fusillade, and according to eyewitnesses, he was scalped by one of the New Mexico.

24–25, 1962, (see "La fusillade de la rue d’Isly, l’exode des pieds-noirs, Oran", Human Rights League, March 2002 la fusillade de la rue d’Isly, l’exode.

For AmE examples (1) and (2), the plural is anglicized fracases fusillade /ˌfjuːzɪˈleɪd/ /ˌfjuːsəˈlɑːd/   Galápagos /ɡəˈlæpəɡɒs/ /ɡəˈlɑːpəɡoʊs/.

Carter later wrote that "Citizens who lined up to vote were mowed down by fusillades of terrorists" bullets.

Next morning, after a comparatively harmless fusillade, the hill was suddenly and quite unexpectedly carried by a rush of the Boers, Colley being shot dead by a rifle bullet through the forehead.

shots!" exclaimed Blyth an instant before being killed during the initial fusillades.

marines drawn from landing forces in the Fleet suffered disastrously as fusillades of gunfire from Confederate sharpshooters and cannoneers swept them down.

"Attaques à Paris: la situation au lendemain des fusillades meurtrières qui ont fait au moins 129 morts".

s"y rendent en pèlerinage; puis tous reviennent ensemble au milieu des fusillades et des détonations des varellota (petit baril)".

Au-delà de la fusillade du 9 novembre 1932, Lausanne, Éditions d"en bas, 2012, 527 p.

During the burning there were constant fusillades of rifle and revolver firing.

German fleet and the vanguards engaged one another with their opening fusillades.

Twenty-five yards from the objective the heroic soldier was killed by the enemy fusillades.

Synonyms:

fire, burst, volley, salvo, firing,

Antonyms:

bore, inactivity, lack, implode, ground stroke,