"machine-gun" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-machine-gun.wav Forms: machine-guns [present, singular, third-person], machine-gunning [participle, present], machine-gunned [participle, past], machine-gunned [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} machine-gun (third-person singular simple present machine-guns, present participle machine-gunning, simple past and past participle machine-gunned)
  1. To fire a machine gun Translations (to fire a machine gun): metrallar (Catalan), metralhar (Portuguese) Translations (to shoot with a machine gun): metrallar (Catalan), metralhar (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-machine-gun-en-verb-0ouE5GIa Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 60 40 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 60 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of 'to fire a machine gun': 78 22 Disambiguation of 'to shoot with a machine gun': 56 44
  2. To shoot (people, etc.) with a machine gun
    Sense id: en-machine-gun-en-verb-qMQNfinS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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