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Bombard

noun

A large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family. Synonym: bombardon.

verb

(past & past part. bombarded; pres. part. bombarding)

Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile. Synonym: pelt.

Throw bombs at or attack with bombs. Synonym: bomb.

Address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage. Synonym: barrage. "The governor was bombarded with requests to grant a pardon to the convicted killer"

Direct high energy particles or radiation against.

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"Bombard" Quotes from Famous Books

... Genoese coast with fourteen galleys. The Venetians were now strong enough to besiege the Genoese. Doria was killed on the 22nd of January, by a stone bullet, one hundred and ninety-five pounds' weight, discharged from a bombard called the Trevisan. Chioza was then closely invested; five thousand auxiliaries, among whom were some English condottieri, commanded by one Captain Ceccho, joined the Venetians. The Genoese, in their turn, prayed for conditions, but none were granted, until, ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... on Farnum. "I'll send Professor Perkins of Verden University to New Zealand to prepare a paper showing the thing is a failure there. I'll have every town in the state thoroughly canvassed by lecturers and speakers against the bill. I'll bombard the farmers ...

— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine

... but a single proton; but a single electron; each indestructible; each mutually destroying. Yet never do they collide. Never in all science, when even electrons bombard atoms with the awful expelling force of the exploding atom behind them, never do they reach the proton, to touch and annihilate it. Yet—the proton is positive and attracts the electron's negative charge. A hydrogen atom—its electron far from the proton falls in, and from it ...

— The Last Evolution • John Wood Campbell

... frequently as before. Perhaps this latter was done by nervous guardians of the Lorraine city, who on first hearing the racket took it for granted that it meant an airplane attack, and were therefore starting in to bombard the skies, discovering hostile fliers in ...

— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach

... glad to get her back," he said quietly. "But I haven't heard from her at all. And—well, she's not the sort of woman to bombard with telegrams. She's out on a difficult job and I felt it best to leave her to it. I shall hear when she's ready, I guess she'll be right along in ...

— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum

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