Associations to the word «Ammunition»

Wiktionary

AMMUNITION, noun. ​Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
AMMUNITION, noun. (obsolete) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
AMMUNITION, noun. Any stock of missiles or supplies for a conflict, literal or figurative.

Dictionary definition

AMMUNITION, noun. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
AMMUNITION, noun. Any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction.
AMMUNITION, noun. Information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint; "his admission provided ammunition for his critics".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats