Synonyms for shelling
shelling

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1. barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shellingnoun

   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"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing"

   Synonyms:
   barrage fire, barrage, outpouring, stamp battery, electric battery, bombardment, onslaught, assault and battery, battery, bombing

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1. List of paraphrases for "shelling":

   bombardment, bombing, bombardments, bombings, bombarding, bombed, bombarded, strikes, strike, shelled, shellings

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1. Vira Protskych:

   The city is in ruin. Many buildings like hospitals and fire stations and university campuses and private houses are destroyed. [Blocks] of flats were burnt because shells fell there. Many buildings do not have windows. The city is on fire, people live in hell now in Mariupol. There are shelling and bombing of the city — civilian areas.

2. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin:

   You can't pull out ... while shelling is coming down on you.

3. The Security Council:

   The members of the Security Council expressed their deep concern at the continued high level of violence in Syria and condemned all violence directed against civilians and civilian infrastructure, including medical facilities, they expressed outrage at all attacks against civilians, as well as indiscriminate attacks, including those involving shelling and aerial bombardment, such as the use of barrel bombs, which have reportedly been extensively used in recent days in Aleppo.

4. Volodymyr Falshovnyk:

   Our relatives began to call and say that the city was being stormed, that there were wounded and dead, we asked the Russians what was going on and they said there were no regular Russian troops there but we continued to hear that there was shelling.

5. El Ezz:

   Since the Russian intervention and the continued Russian shelling of Aleppo, the nature of injuries has worsened dramatically, this might be because of the nature of the weaponry that the Russian airforce is using in their shelling and attacks. Most of the injuries are usually multiple injuries.