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What (who) is Bombard - definition
DISAMBIGOUS
Bombarde; Bombard (disambiguation); Bombards
bombard
(bombards, bombarding, bombarded)
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.
He bombarded Catherine with questions to which he should have known the answers...
I've been bombarded by the press and television since I came back from Norway.
VERB: V n with n, be V-ed by n
2.
When soldiers bombard a place, they attack it with continuous heavy gunfire or bombs.
Rebel artillery units have regularly bombarded the airport...
VERB: V n
Bombard
·noun Padded breeches.
II. Bombard ·noun ·see Bombardo.
III. Bombard ·noun A Bombardment.
IV. Bombard ·noun A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
V. Bombard ·vt To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, ·etc., at or into.
VI. Bombard ·noun A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
bombard
¦ verb b?m'b?:d
1. attack continuously with bombs or other missiles.
2. subject to a continuous flow of questions or information.
3. Physics direct a stream of high-speed particles at (a substance).
¦ noun 'b?mb?:d an early form of cannon.
Derivatives
bombardment noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. bombarde, prob. based on L. bombus (see bomb).
Wikipedia
Bombard
Bombard may refer to the act of carrying out a bombardment. It may also refer to:
Examples of use of Bombard
1. Will we bombard and bombard, and live forever by bombardment?
2. Enemy bombard our communication trench heavily, soon levelled out flat.
3. Despite the devastating offensive, Hamas continued to bombard residents of southern Israel.
4. Israel continued to bombard Bint Jbeil and nearby Aitarun from Marun al–Ras.
5. Losing candidates are expected to bombard election authorities with complaints and accusations of cheating.