shrapnel in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Fragmentation includes the shrapnel described above but can also include sand, debris and vegetation from the area surrounding the blast source.
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It could be employed as shrapnel, case or common shell.
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A piece of shrapnel embedded in his spine, leaving him paralysed, and he had been told by doctors that he would never walk again.
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The blast left a crater 200 ft deep and threw debris and shrapnel as far as 300 yards.
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A 1952 operation to remove some of the shrapnel still embedded in his stomach was not completely successful, and in 1964 he suffered a stroke.
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The blast shattered the windows of a nearby building, and shrapnel from the explosion damaged a nearby truck.
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He joked that there was so much shrapnel in his back, that the compasses of the aircraft he flew were affected.
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Both devices were packed with nails to act as shrapnel.
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He was hit in his head and chest with shrapnel, but not severely.
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For anti-personnel use, a small amount of plastic explosive (about half a stick), along with shrapnel-like projectiles if available, would be placed in the bag.
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