Bombard

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles.
  • v. To assail persistently, as with requests. See Synonyms at attack, barrage2.
  • v. To irradiate (an atom).
  • v. To attack with a cannon firing stone balls.
  • n. An early form of cannon that fired stone balls.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
  • n. a bassoon-like medieval instrument
  • n. a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
  • v. To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
  • v. To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
  • v. To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
  • n. A bombardment.
  • n. A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
  • n. Padded breeches.
  • n. See bombardo.
  • v. To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The name generally given in Europe to the cannon during the first century of its use.
  • n. See bombardelle.
  • n. A small vessel with two masts, like the English ketch, used in the Mediterranean; a bomb-ketch.
  • n. A large leathern jug or bottle for holding liquor. See black-jack, 1.
  • n. Figuratively, a toper.
  • n. A medieval musical instrument of the oboe family, having a reed mouthpiece and a wooden tube.
  • n. plural A style of breeches worn in the seventeenth century, before the introduction of tight-fitting knee-breeches.
  • n. [From the verb.] An attack with bombs; a bombardment.
  • To fire off bombards or cannon.
  • To cannonade; attack with bombs; fire shot and shell at or into; batter with shot and shell.
  • To attack with missiles of any kind; figuratively, assail vigorously: as, to bombard one with questions.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage
  • v. throw bombs at or attack with bombs
  • n. a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family
  • v. cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
  • v. direct high energy particles or radiation against
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    lash out    snipe    assault    round    assail    attack    shawm    bass    ray    irradiate   
    Variant
    bombardo   
    Form
    bombarded    bombarding   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bombardment    cannonade    pelt    bomb   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bernard    Brossard    Chard    Gerard    Gillard    Girard    Godard    Picard    Yard    ard