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How to pronounce broadside in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms philippic, tirade
Type of declamation, denunciation, denouncement
Type Words
Synonyms bill, broadsheet, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway
Type of advertising, advertizement, advertizing, ad, advert, advertisement
Has types stuffer
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Type of armament
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Type of strike, collide with, hit, impinge on, run into
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Type of firing, fire
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Type of side


the ship was broadside to the dock.
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a broadside attack.

Examples of broadside

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The book expands that charge into a broadside against liberal bias in the media.
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After his very public broadside against his employer, he waited for a reaction.
From the washingtonpost.com
After ramming, the turtle ship would unleash a broadside volley of cannonballs.
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The Press Connection is not your typical, antimanagement picket-line broadside.
From the time.com
A broadside of cannon in their direction, a few hours wait, all is well again.
From the expressandstar.com
The shot is relatively easy, 15 yards and broadside, and the arrow finds its mark.
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We drifted broadside on, right under the bows of a large Norwegian icebreaker.
From the heraldtribune.com
Seeing her predicament, Orion dropped back to cover Colossus with a broadside.
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Sandwich fired a broadside, unaware that Monarca had already hauled down her flag.
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  • Circular: an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"
  • Collide with the broad side of; "her car broad-sided mine"
  • Toward a full side; "a broadside attack"
  • With a side facing an object; "the train hit the truck broadside"; "the wave caught the canoe broadside and capsized it"
  • Tirade: a speech of violent denunciation
  • All of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship
  • Broadside is a weekly, single-panel comic published in the Navy Times since 1986, and written by Jeff Bacon. The humor is very specifically directed at United States Navy personnel, and considered nearly incomprehensible by many non-Navy servicepersons. ...
  • Broadside Magazine was a small mimeographed publication founded in 1962 by Agnes "Sis" Cunningham and her husband, Gordon Friesen. Hugely influential in the folk-revival, it was often controversial. ...
  • A broadside is a single sheet of cheap paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. ...