The act of attacking or overwhelming someone with many things at once, like rapid-fire questions or continuous criticism.
Present participle of barrage, from French barrage. Maintains the sense of overwhelming force or quantity, with -ing suffix indicating ongoing action.
When we say someone is 'barraging' us with questions, we're using a military term that originally described blocking a river with a dam—language literally weaponizes water barriers into conversational overwhelm!
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