SHRAPNEL Definition & Meaning

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shrapnel

[ shrap-nl ]

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Military.
1. a hollow projectile containing bullets or the like and a bursting charge, designed to explode before reaching the target, and to set free a shower of missiles.
2. such projectiles collectively.
shell fragments.

shrapnel

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1. a projectile containing a number of small pellets or bullets exploded before impact
2. such projectiles collectively
fragments from this or any other type of shell

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1800–10; named after Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), English army officer, its inventor

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C19: named after H. Shrapnel (1761–1842), English army officer, who invented it

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The explosion also left shrapnel in head and chest.

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A soldier cleaning up rubble on the floor told us that most of the damage was caused by shrapnel from shelling around the church.

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"We went home two months ago... even though the house is destroyed, with shrapnel in it and the windows broken," she told Reuters news agency.

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On 13 March, "Artem" sent a telegram message from a military hospital, where he was being treated for shrapnel wounds suffered in a drone attack.

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Thirty-year-old Maksym is on a stretcher with an IV drip to relieve some of the pain from several shrapnel wounds across his body.

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