Meaning & use
Barraging
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Subjecting someone or something to a continuous, overwhelming series of attacks, questions, or criticisms.
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Reporters kept barraging the spokesperson with questions about the scandal.
The troops were barraging the enemy position with artillery fire.
A note on using this word
"Barrage" originally referred to a dam or barrier in French before evolving into its military and figurative senses in English.
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