Definition & Meaning of "machine gun"in English

Machine gun

NOUN

a gun that automatically and rapidly fires a succession of bullets upon pressing the trigger

Grammatical Information

Animacy status

Inanimate

Composition

Compound

Countable

Plural form

machine guns

Examples

The soldiers used a mounted machine gun to provide covering fire during the assault.

to machine-gun

/məʃˈiːnɡˈʌn/

to machine-gun

VERB

to fire continuously or rapidly using a machine gun

Grammatical Information

Composition

Compound

Action verb

Regular

Present tense

machine-gun

3rd person singular

machine-guns

Present participle

machine-gunning

Past simple

machine-gunned

Past participle

machine-gunned

Examples

The soldiers machine-gunned the advancing enemy.

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Definition & Meaning of "machine gun"in English

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