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catapult English

Meaning catapult meaning

What does catapult mean?
Definitions in simple English

catapult Noun

— A catapult is an object that can be used to throw or launch objects such as stones. That child used the catapult to hit his friend.

catapult Verb

— When you catapult something, it means that you throw an object through the air. That small stone was being catapulted towards the road.

catapult

— verb shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult the enemy catapulted rocks towards the fort — verb (= sling) hurl as if with a sling — noun an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles — noun a device that launches aircraft from a warship — noun (= slingshot) a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones

Synonyms catapult synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as catapult?

catapult English » English

sling slingshot ballista launch onager trebucket trebuchet shoot shanghai pitch mangonel launcher hurl fling eject bricole arbalist arbalest ultracentrifuge trap toss thrust throw spin-dry slinging skyrocket shooting scurry ricochet propel project plop lob lift-off knockout attachment jettison device jet hurtle heave firing ejector ejaculation drop discharge dart chuck centrifuge centrifugate cast barrage

Topics catapult topics

What do people use catapult to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Physical actions Move something Carry

Throw

Conjugation catapult conjugation

How do you conjugate catapult?

catapult · verb

Examples catapult examples

How do I use catapult in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The catapult hurled the boulder over the castle walls.
A trebuchet is a siege weapon similar to a catapult.

Movie subtitles

Bring that catapult into line with the street.
I won't rush upon you like a boulder from a catapult.
Prepare to catapult aircraft.
Aircraft platform prepare to catapult aircraft.
Catapult aircraft.
Catapult platform, catapult aircraft.
The catapult is, er, well, you could make one for yourself out of strips of ox hide.
That my catapult is ready, and it seems a great pity to waste it.
Nino, you're a catapult.
Mr Arex, prepare to compensate for warp catapult effect.
The Tone is having catapult problems.
A catapult?
Well, you know my model catapult?
The reversal has begun. The energy field is acting as a catapult.
While we were busy making that catapult, they got away and pulled these strings.
Judy found a branch catapult.
It appears to have been fired by a catapult, sir.
That's why they call me Catapult.
Catapult.
And I'll catapult over.
I wish an injection could catapult me out of this hell.
And now, to invent the catapult.
Judge probably figured you dropping the catapult on your mother in law's head was wrong. So he had to get formal about it.
Or a catapult!
I was a dab hand with a catapult as a nipper!
I've ejected him. Don't worry, Vladimir Nikolayevich, we got another catapult, a new one.
You catapult us to Alpha, while you try to slow down in its orbit.
And they didn't have that catapult thing.
Ready the catapult!
It's what we've named a Stealth Catapult.
You shoot a guy out of a high-speed catapult right into a brick wall.
Man the catapult.
Influenced by the medieval catapult, designed for outright decapitation.

News and current affairs

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Financial integration could catapult financial development for new member countries, including through the advent of new financial instruments and services.
This deep social and intellectual transformation underway in Asia promises to catapult it from economic power to global leadership.
And it is childhood cancer that has the greatest potential to catapult a remote fear into an unimaginable reality.

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