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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.
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Bombardment
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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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 | |
| bom'bardment | |
| —n | |
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