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verb
- 1. attack (a place or person) continuously with bombs, shells, or other missiles: "the city was bombarded by federal forces" Similar
noun
- 1. a cannon of the earliest type, which fired a stone ball or large shot. historical
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BOMBARD definition: 1. to attack a place with continuous shooting or bombs: 2. to attack a place with continuous…. Learn more.
: to attack especially with artillery or bombers. 2. : to assail vigorously or persistently (as with questions) 3. : to subject to the impact of rapidly moving particles (such as electrons) bombardment. bäm-ˈbärd-mənt. noun. Did you know? In the late Middle Ages, a bombard was a cannon used to hurl large stones at enemy fortifications.
BOMBARD meaning: 1. to attack a place with continuous shooting or bombs: 2. to attack a place with continuous…. Learn more.
bombard somebody/something (with something) to attack somebody with a lot of questions, criticisms, etc. or by giving them too much information. We have been bombarded with letters of complaint. We are bombarded daily with propaganda about what we should eat.
If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.
verb (used with object) to attack or batter with artillery fire. to attack with bombs. to assail vigorously: to bombard the speaker with questions. Synonyms: besiege, hound, harass, beset. Physics. to direct high energy particles or radiations against: to bombard a nucleus.
To bombard is to attack, whether physically (with something like missiles) or metaphorically (with something like questions). See the word bomb in bombard ? That's a clue to its meaning.
1. (Military) to attack with concentrated artillery fire or bombs. 2. to attack with vigour and persistence: the boxer bombarded his opponent with blows to the body. 3. to attack verbally, esp with questions: the journalists bombarded her with questions. 4.
BOMBARD definition: to continuously attack a place using guns and bombs. Learn more.
1. If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them. [...] 2. When soldiers bombard a place, they attack it with continuous heavy gunfire or bombs. [...] More. Conjugations of 'bombard'
