cannoned

verb

past tense of cannon
as in cannonaded

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  1. barraged
  2. blitzed
  3. bombarded
  4. buffeted
  5. battered
  6. ambushed
  7. bombed
  8. waylaid
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  • The Weather Channel radar shows Lake County getting barraged with rain.
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Each character has totally justified and totally unjustified reasons for resenting one another, and the sensation of absorbing those contrasting opinions is like being in a stuck bumper car, barraged and battered from all sides.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
Definition of barraged
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  • Jones blitzed from the right side of the Rams’ formation and initially moved toward running back Blake Corum as Stafford faked a handoff.
    — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • For Hitchcock, the turning points came earlier, in 1940 and 1941, as Hitler blitzed his way through Continental Europe.
    — Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of blitzed
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  • At the outset of Wednesday’s hearing, Judge Kaplan acknowledged the keen interest in LIV’s Chapter 11 case, recounting how he had been bombarded over the weekend at his golf club about what would happen next.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Along with the rockets and spacecraft that transport them into orbit, satellites are constantly bombarded with fast moving particles that travel through space called cosmic rays.
    — Andrea Richard, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of bombarded
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  • Over the past year alone, it has been buffeted by phenomena such as geopolitical uncertainty — especially in the Middle East — trade tensions, exchange-rate volatility, consumer confidence pressure, and disruption across travel and supply chains.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • For now, the European truck market is relatively secure, but the broader European automotive market is being buffeted by Chinese competition.
    — Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of buffeted
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  • All my teams got battered last week, and I'm still pumped to get a new week going.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The freshman who could be a Curtis rival for years to come, Tennessee’s Faizon Brandon, was battered a week ago by Texas and was benched by coach Josh Heupel in the first half against Auburn after a bad interception.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of battered
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  • However, the night took a turn when Kanye West ambushed Swift’s acceptance speech, creating one of the most infamous moments in the awards show’s history — and subsequently sparking a years-long feud with Swift.
    — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Investigators later determined the shooting happened in the area of Pontiac Lake Road and Summit Drive, where the four men were ambushed by several other men armed with assault rifles.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of ambushed
Verb
  • Most Gaza residents live in squalid tent camps, with large parts of cities bombed to rubble.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Kyiv has bombed Russian refineries, leading Moscow to ban diesel exports.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of bombed
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  • In the film Rap World (which Bensinger also edited), Bensinger, O’Malley, and Rahill play suburban deadbeats eager to make an album, each man waylaid by his own hubris and distractions.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
  • But in the meantime, on their nut-selling quest, Zuriko and Gela are unfortunately — though perhaps inevitably, given that in these parts Murphy’s law is the only one strictly observed — waylaid by highway robbers.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of waylaid
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“Cannoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cannoned. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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