Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles.
- transitive verb To assail persistently; harass: synonym: barrage.
- transitive verb To irradiate (an atom).
- transitive verb To attack with a cannon firing stone balls.
- noun An early form of cannon that fired stone balls.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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. - noun The name generally given in Europe to the cannon during the first century of its use.
- noun See
bombardelle . - noun A small vessel with two masts, like the English ketch, used in the Mediterranean; a bomb-ketch.
- noun A large leathern jug or bottle for holding liquor. See
black-jack , 1. - noun Figuratively, a toper.
- noun A medieval musical instrument of the oboe family, having a reed mouthpiece and a wooden tube.
- noun plural A style of breeches worn in the seventeenth century, before the introduction of tight-fitting knee-breeches.
- noun [From the verb.] An attack with bombs; a bombardment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.), obsolete See
bombardo . - noun (Gun.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
- noun Poetic & R. A bombardment.
- noun obsolete A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
- noun obsolete Padded breeches.
- noun [Obs.] inflated language; bombast.
- transitive verb To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
medieval primitivecannon , used chiefly insieges for throwing heavy stone balls. - noun obsolete a
bassoon -like medieval instrument - noun obsolete a large liquor container made of
leather , in the form of a jug or a bottle. - verb To
attack something withbombs ,artillery shells or othermissiles orprojectiles . - verb figuratively To attack something or someone by
directing objects at them. - verb physics To direct at a
substance anintense stream of high-energyparticles , usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage
- verb throw bombs at or attack with bombs
- noun a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family
- verb cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
- verb direct high energy particles or radiation against
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The very word "bombard" comes from the Greek bombos, meaning the buzzing of a bee.
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chained_bear commented on the word bombard
Another name for a bomb-galliot or bomb-ketch.
September 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word bombard
Bombard a drab mob.
October 18, 2008