Fire and Lob

Fire

Fire verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.

Usage example: police officers firing rubber bullets

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Lob and fire are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lob" instead the word "Fire" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: fired, fireball, firing, fireside, fireplace

Lob verb - To send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm.

Usage example: he lightly lobbed the errant ball over the fence to the waiting schoolboy

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Fire and lob are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fire" instead the word "Lob" as a verb or a noun.

beam	fire beam	lob beam
way	fire way	lob way
nuke	fire nuke	lob nuke
missiles	fire missiles	lob missiles
Other words: rockets, grenades, arrows.

The Solis's Frickin' Laser Beams can One-Hit Kill any Terran unit, but can only fire in a straight line, while the Deucalion can lob cannon shells from beyond the safety of the horizon.

Source: Target Spotter
Some cover will disintegrate under heavy fire, other times enemies will simply lob grenades or run to a better spot to shoot you.

Source: Concealment Equals Cover
They are relatively low velocity direct-fire weapons that lob their smallish shells in a high arc with an effective range of up to a few hundred meters, but are surprisingly accurate.

Source: Useful Notes / Modern Battlefield Weapons

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