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bombard

[v. bom-bahrd, buhm-; n. bom-bahrd]

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verb (used with object)

to attack or batter with artillery fire.

to attack with bombs.

to assail vigorously: to bombard the speaker with questions.

Physics. to direct high energy particles or radiations against: to bombard a nucleus.

noun

the earliest kind of cannon, originally throwing stone balls.

Nautical. bomb ketch.

an English leather tankard of the 18th century and earlier, similar to but larger than a blackjack.

Obsolete. a leather jug.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English (noun) < Medieval Latin bombarda stone-throwing engine (Latin bomb(us) booming noise (see bomb) + -arda -ard)

Related forms

bom·bard·er, noun

bom·bard·ment, noun

un·bom·bard·ed, adjective

Synonyms
3. beset, harass, hound, besiege.

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Libyan naval ships are caught in a bind: they don't want to bombard civilians, and they don't dare flee.

All year long, from every direction, surveys bombard students.

These bombard a target with bogus requests for information: death by a billion clicks.

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Libyan naval ships are caught in a bind: they don't want to bombard civilians, and they don't dare flee.

All year long, from every direction, surveys bombard students.

These bombard a target with bogus requests for information: death by a billion clicks.

Current research suggests that the amount of radiation that would bombard an astronaut during a thousand.

Energetic protons from deep space continuously bombard our planet and strike atoms in the upper layers of the atmosphere.

And they were more maneuverable than sailing ships, particularly along coastlines, where they could bombard forts and cities.

Bombard a tiny object with electrons, and you can create a large image with the focused beam.

To make atoms heavier than that, physicists must bombard uranium with neutrons, or squash smaller atoms together.

Waldo concluded that the inhabitants had used the stones as ammo to bombard enemies trying to sneak up the.

Active devices bombard people with millimeter waves to reveal what may be hidden inside.

But bombard a bowling ball with enough pingpong balls, and it can be slowed.

Curran has learned how to share his ideas with audiences rather than bombard them with cerebral constructs.

So it is no good simply to bombard shoppers with ads for items that are invariably billed as bigger, brighter, stronger and so on.

Interactions between elements and cosmic rays, which constantly bombard all planets, produce these gamma rays and neutrons.

They stand for about a minute as entangled photons bombard their skin with the photoelectric effect.

More chunks along with comets continued to bombard the planet's growing.

Yet instead of engaging with the public, national political leaders have chosen to bombard them with cheap slogans.

Neutrons from the solar wind continually bombard the moon.

And it is prepared to bombard you with weight loss ideas.

They will know precisely what kind of advertising, coupons and junk mail to bombard users with.

Pressure surges bombard the sensitive nerve endings that normally transmit information about the body's position to the brain.

Probably, they will bombard production facilities in some foreign economies.

So many images bombard your retinas that none of them makes much of an impression.

Childhood obesity mounts as junk food purveyors bombard children with advertising, even at school.

Microsoft intends to bombard the consumer market with its gesture and voice offerings.

Taliban fighters often bombard the place with rockets, which sometimes explode and injure people.

Bloomberg is known for hiring aggressive opposition research teams that bombard rival campaigns with negative press.

Visitors are to stay attuned to the mourners' feelings and not bombard them with remarks.

They may bombard you with popup warnings that you can't shake until you agree to pay the money.

In principle, a rail gun standing on the ground could bombard targets on the moon.

Too bad battery watches bombard us with cell-mutating, electromagnetic energy.

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bombard

—vb
1.	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.	physics to direct high-energy particles or photons against (atoms, nuclei, etc) esp to produce ions or nuclear transformations

—n
5.	an ancient type of cannon that threw stone balls

[C15: from Old French bombarder to pelt, from bombarde stone-throwing cannon, probably from Latin bombus booming sound; see bomb]

bom'bardment

—n

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bombard

early 15c. (n.), 1590s (v.), from Fr. bombarder, from bombarde "mortar, catapult" (14c.), from bombe (see bomb). The same word, from the same source, was used in English and O.Fr. late 14c. in reference to the bass shawm, a bassoon-like musical instrument, preserving the "buzzing"

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"Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all. And another storm brewing, I hear it sing i' the wind. Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head. Yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls."

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