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Bedlam vs Cannonade - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between bedlam and cannonade

is that bedlam is a place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails while cannonade is firing artillery in a large amount for a length of time .

As a verb cannonade is

to discharge artillery fire.

bedlam

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
  • * 1872 : , The Complete Works of John Bunyan , p 133
    • Some of the wards were veritable "bedlams ," and dis-charged patients have told of abuses practiced in them of which the mere recital causes a shudder.
  • * 2002 : Mark L. Friedman, ''Everyday Crisis Management, p 134
    • The outside of the Hyatt was bedlam . There was a group of more than a hundred injured people on the circular drive in front of the hotel.
  • (obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let's get the bedlam to lead him.
  • (obsolete) A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.
  • * 1720 : , The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson , p 43
    • But if any man should profess to believe these things, and yet allow himself in any known wickedness, such a one should be put into bedlam.

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    cannonade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Firing artillery in a large amount for a length of time .
  • * Prescott
    • A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted town.
  • (figurative) A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
  • * Ewerson
    • Blue Walden rolls its cannonade .

    Verb

  • To discharge artillery fire.