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nouna weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled
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nouna rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote controltype of:
Definition that contains missile
- kill the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- hit hit with a missile from a weapon
- shot an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- shot the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination
- shot a solid missile discharged from a firearm
- shoot hit with a missile from a weapon
- shoot kill by firing a missile
- gun a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
- lead the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- sam a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target