English-Portuguese translations for shrapnel

• estilhaço
  Beka perdeu parte do crânio e ainda tem estilhaços no interior deste. Beka lost part of his skull and shrapnel remains inside.
  Têm três funções: capacidade de penetração em blindagem, disseminação de estilhaços de granada e capacidade de provocar fogo. They have three functions: armour penetration capability, spraying shards of shrapnel from the casing, and starting a fire.
  Esta criança, de três anos apenas, nunca mais vai poder mexer os braços nem as pernas, porque ficou com a espinal-medula destruída pelos estilhaços de uma granada israelita. She will never again use her arms or legs; she is just three years old and her spinal cord was destroyed by Israeli shrapnel.

Definition of shrapnel

• An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually
• Loose change
• Debris

Examples

• The dog ate my sandwich, and there was shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag

Related words

• dishrag
• shrapnels
• shrank
• Shraddha
• bushranger
• ashram
• ashramite
• washrag
• ashrama