salvo

• avalanche
• barrage
• blitz
• blitzkrieg
• bombardment
• broadside
• burst
• cannonade
• cataclysm
• cataract
• current
• deluge
• discharge
• drumbeat
• drumfire
• earful
• engulfment
• excess
• flood
• flood tide
• flurry
• flush
• fusillade
• glut
• gunfire
• gush
• hail
• inundation
• outburst
• outflow
• outpouring
• overabundance
• overage
• overflow
• overkill
• overmuch
• oversupply
• rash
• river
• shower
• spate
• storm
• stream
• superabundance
• superfluity
• surfeit
• surge
• surplus
• tide
• torrent
• volley

• dribble
• drip
• trickle

• noun
  1. An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
  2. A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
  3. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
  4. (by extension) Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
  5. The combined cheers of a crowd.
• verb
  1. To discharge weapons in a salvo.

• The soldiers unleashed a fierce salvo of gunfire against the enemy.
• Her sharp retort was a surprising salvo in the midst of the argument.
• The critic's scathing review was the first salvo in a series of attacks against the author's work.
• The company launched a marketing salvo to promote its new product line.
• The company's new advertising campaign was a bold salvo aimed at capturing market share.

earful

hail

hailstorm

raid

rain

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