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Bombarding

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bom⋅bard

  [v. bom-bahrd, buhm-; n. bom-bahrd]
Use Bombarding in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to attack or batter with artillery fire.
2. to attack with bombs.
3. to assail vigorously: to bombard the speaker with questions.
4. Physics. to direct high energy particles or radiations against: to bombard a nucleus.
–noun
5. the earliest kind of cannon, originally throwing stone balls.
6. Nautical. bomb ketch.
7. an English leather tankard of the 18th century and earlier, similar to but larger than a blackjack.
8. Obsolete. a leather jug.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME (n.) < ML bombarda stone-throwing engine (L bomb(us) booming noise (see bomb ) + -arda -ard )

Related forms:
bom⋅bard⋅er, noun
bom⋅bard⋅ment, noun

Synonyms:
3. beset, harass, hound, besiege.
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bom·bard   (bŏm-bärd', bəm-)   
tr.v.   bom·bard·ed, bom·bard·ing, bom·bards

  1. To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles.

  2. To assail persistently, as with requests. See Synonyms at attack, barrage2.

  3. To irradiate (an atom).

  4. To attack with a cannon firing stone balls.

n.   (bŏm'bärd')
An early form of cannon that fired stone balls.

[From Middle English, a bombard, from Old French bombarde, from Medieval Latin bombarda, probably from Latin bombus, a booming sound; see bomb.]
bom·bard'er n., bom·bard'ment n.
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Word Origin & History

bombard 
c.1430 (n.), 1598 (v.), from Fr. bombarder, from bombarde "mortar, catapult," from bombe (see bomb). The same word, from the same source, was used c.1393 in reference to a bassoon-like musical instrument. Bombardier is first recorded 1560.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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