Meanings
present singular third person grenades · participle present grenading · participle past grenaded · past grenaded
- To use grenade(s) upon.
They advanced after grenading the next traverse, much like the British did.
2015, Gordon L. Rottman, The Hand Grenade, page 461 more example
Some of the infantry got pinned down by it, and from cover kept up the battle by grenading rubble piles or any other likely spots ahead of them.
2001, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, page 43 - intransitiveslanghobbiesOf an engine: to be violently wrecked so that the internal components burst out.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Medieval Latinpōmum“apple”
- Old Frenchgrenate
- Frenchgrenade
- Englishgrenade
Borrowed from French grenade, from Old French grenate in the phrase pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), ultimately from Medieval Latin pōmum (“apple”) + grānātum (“having grains”). The -d developed in French under influence of Spanish granada. Doublet of garnet.
More words from French, Old French, Medieval Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans granaat
- granaatsmall explosive device
Arabic قُنْبُلَة, قُنْبُلَة يَدَوِيَّة
- قُنْبُلَة (qunbula)small explosive device
- قُنْبُلَة يَدَوِيَّة (qunbula yadawiyya)small explosive device
Bengali গ্রেনেড
- গ্রেনেড (greneḍ)small explosive device
Bulgarian грана́та
- грана́та (granáta)small explosive device
Catalan granada
- granadasmall explosive device
Chinese Mandarin 榴彈 /榴弹, 手榴彈 /手榴弹
- 榴彈 /榴弹 (liúdàn)small explosive device
- 手榴彈 /手榴弹 (shǒuliúdàn)small explosive device
- 手雷 (shǒuléi)small explosive device
Czech granát
- granátsmall explosive device
Danish granat
- granatsmall explosive device
Dutch granaat
- granaatsmall explosive device
Esperanto grenado
- grenadosmall explosive device
Estonian granaat
- granaatsmall explosive device
Finnish kranaatti, heite
- kranaattismall explosive device
- heitesmall explosive device
- heittää kranaatillato use grenades
French grenade, grenader
- grenadesmall explosive device
- grenaderto use grenades
German Granate, but see Granaten verwenden
- Granatesmall explosive device
- but see Granaten verwendento use grenades
Greek χειροβομβίδα
- χειροβομβίδα (cheirovomvída)small explosive device
Hebrew רִמּוֹן, רימון
- רִמּוֹןsmall explosive device
- רימון (rimón)small explosive device
Hindi हथगोला, ग्रेनेड
- हथगोला (hathgolā)small explosive device
- ग्रेनेड (greneḍ)small explosive device
Hungarian kézigránát, gránát
- kézigránátsmall explosive device
- gránátsmall explosive device
Icelandic handsprengja
- handsprengjasmall explosive device
Indonesian granat
- granatsmall explosive device
Irish gránáid
- gránáidsmall explosive device
Italian granata
- granatasmall explosive device
Japanese 擲弾, 榴弾
- 擲弾 (tekidan)small explosive device
- 榴弾 (ryūdan)small explosive device
- グレネード (gurenēdo)small explosive device
- 手榴弾 (shuryūdan, teryūdan)small explosive device
Korean 수류탄
- 수류탄 (suryutan)small explosive device
Latvian granāta
- granātasmall explosive device
Lithuanian granata
- granatasmall explosive device
Malay bom tangan
- bom tangansmall explosive device
Norwegian Bokmål granat
- granatsmall explosive device
Persian نارنجک
- نارنجک (nâranjak, nârenjak)small explosive device
Polish granat
- granatsmall explosive device
Portuguese granada
- granadasmall explosive device
Romanian grenadă, grenada
- grenadăsmall explosive device
- grenadato use grenades
Russian грана́та, лимо́нка
- грана́та (granáta)small explosive device
- лимо́нка (limónka)small explosive device
Slovak granát
- granátsmall explosive device
Spanish granada
- granadasmall explosive device
Swedish granat
- granatsmall explosive device
Tagalog granada
- granadasmall explosive device
Thai ระเบิดมือ
- ระเบิดมือ (rá-bə̀ət-mʉʉ)small explosive device
Turkish el bombası
- el bombasısmall explosive device
Ukrainian грана́та
- грана́та (hranáta)small explosive device
Urdu گرینیڈ
- گرینیڈ (greneḍ)small explosive device
Vietnamese lựu đạn
- lựu đạnsmall explosive device
Yiddish גראַנאַט
- גראַנאַט (granat)small explosive device
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with grenade
Anagrams
Cite this entry
grenade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grenade
“grenade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grenade. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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