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Synonyms for barrage

Synonyms for barrage: battery and onslaught. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 2 senses · noun

The 2 synonyms for barrage

batterynoun, in the sense "the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target"
onslaughtnoun, in the sense "the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)"

All two are filed under barrage's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 3, RidgelineActions

the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target

They laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops.

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The true synonym

battery

Same sentence, swapped: They laid down a battery in front of the advancing troops.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where barrage stands in the sentence above.

crossfire
fratricide
cover

Sense 2 of 2nounTier 3, RidgelineCommunication

the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)

A barrage of questions.

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The true synonym

onslaught

Same sentence, swapped: A onslaught of questions.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where barrage stands in the sentence above.

shelling
usage
signing

Where barrage turns up in the game

barrage is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play barrage

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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