How to say "barrage" in Japanese

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  • 連打れんだCommon
    noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers barrage in the sense of repeated blows: striking or hitting again and again in rapid succession. It names the action of delivering a stream of blows one after another.
  • 放列ほうれつCommon
    nounCovers the artillery sense: it denotes a battery — a line of guns or cameras — and its barrage use is the artillery one, not a barrage of blows.

Use 連打 for a barrage in the sense of repeated blows or strikes, and 放列 for the artillery sense, where it denotes a battery or line of guns or cameras.

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Japanese equivalents
  • 連打れんだrepeated blows
  • 放列ほうれつbattery (of artillery, cameras, etc.)
  • 雨あられあめあられhail (e.g. of bullets)
  • 弾幕だんまく(artillery) barrage
  • せめbarrage (of)

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