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Bombardment

noun

The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written). Synonyms: barrage, onslaught, outpouring. "A bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake"

The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target. Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, shelling. "The shelling went on for hours without pausing"

The act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays).

An attack by dropping bombs. Synonym: bombing.

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"Bombardment" Quotes from Famous Books

... darkness, illuminating the room, and the succeeding crack shook the house. It was a storm, rare in the dry belt, of which there were not more than one or two in the year. For Casey's sake she hoped that there would be no hail with it. Better continued drought than a ruinous bombardment of frozen pellets from the heavens which would beat the crops to the ground, ...

— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm

... units. He kept his fleet in harbor, ready at any moment to steam out into the North Sea for action. Throughout the war to this writing, not one of his great first-class battleships has fired a shot, with the exception of the Queen Elizabeth, which took part in the bombardment of ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) - Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers • Various

... bombardment was over the redhead again poked into view, and the fugitive made a movement with his hand to indicate his poor opinion ...

— The House Boat Boys • St. George Rathborne

... cherished under the wings of war, did but give courage and heroism to both. Yet he loved most humanly! One night, in an interval of duty, on leaving the house where his fiancee lived, he found the shells of the bombardment falling fast in the street outside. He could not make up his mind to go—might not ruin befall the dear house with its inmates at any moment? So he wandered up and down outside for hours in the bitter night, watching, amid the rattle of the shells and the terrified cries of women and children from ...

— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... said I, "they are Corsicans that have drawn off from the bombardment, though why I cannot divine, unless it be in curiosity to discover why Giraglia was ...

— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine

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