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shrapnel meaning in Punjabi

ਸ਼੍ਰਾਪਨਲ

/ˈʃɹæpnəl/

shrapnel in Punjabi: ਸ਼੍ਰਾਪਨਲ, ਸ਼੍ਰਪਨਲ, ਸ਼੍ਰਪਨੇਲ. In English, shrapnel means an anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets or balls close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.

Punjabi words for shrapnel

ਸ਼੍ਰਾਪਨਲ, ਸ਼੍ਰਪਨਲ, ਸ਼੍ਰਪਨੇਲ

English meaning of shrapnel

  1. noun An anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets or balls close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
  2. noun The bullets or balls from the aforementioned type of artillery shell.
  3. noun Any shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb, or landmine.
  4. noun Debris.

Full definition of shrapnel

shrapnel in a sentence

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

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Questions about shrapnel in Punjabi

What is the meaning of shrapnel in Punjabi?
Shrapnel in Punjabi is ਸ਼੍ਰਾਪਨਲ, ਸ਼੍ਰਪਨਲ, ਸ਼੍ਰਪਨੇਲ.
shrapnel ਦਾ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੀ ਅਰਥ ਹੈ?
Shrapnel: ਸ਼੍ਰਾਪਨਲ, ਸ਼੍ਰਪਨਲ, ਸ਼੍ਰਪਨੇਲ.
What does shrapnel mean in English?
Shrapnel means an anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets or balls close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.

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Punjabi words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “shrapnel”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: shrapnel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Punjabi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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