Synonyms of fusillades

fusillades

noun

plural of fusillade

as in barrages

a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once

responded calmly to the fusillade of criticism leveled at his design for the memorial

Synonyms & Similar Words

• barrages
• flurries
• volleys
• salvos
• bombardments
• cannonades
• drumbeats
• torrents
• hails
• floods
• blitzkriegs
• showers
• blitzes
• tides
• storms
• drumfires
• surges
• bursts
• outpourings
• outbursts
• broadsides
• avalanches
• streams
• rashes
• inundations
• outflows
• deluges
• spates
• discharges
• excesses
• overflows
• earfuls
• flood tides
• currents
• gushes
• cataclysms
• cataracts
• flushes
• rivers
• surpluses
• gluts
• oversupplies
• engulfments
• superfluities
• surfeits
• overkills
• overmuch
• overages
• superabundances
• overabundances

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• drips
• trickles
• dribbles

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fusillades

Every stentorian chord became a hammer blow, flourishes intensified into fusillades, a tense pause into an apocalypse. — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026

As Ukraine marked another year of independence, Vladimir Putin responded with one of the worst fusillades of missiles since his unprovoked full-scale war of aggression began over three years ago. — Oleksandra Matviichuk, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025