Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A continuous attack with shot and shell upon a town, fort, or other position; the act of throwing shot and shell into an enemy's town in order to destroy the buildings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
bombing , especially towns or cities - noun heavy
artillery fire - noun physics the incidence of an
intense stream of high-energyparticles directed at a substance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays)
- noun the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)
- noun the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- noun an attack by dropping bombs
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Examples
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Although, in the very touristy areas, the bombardment is a constant reminder of Saigon.
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Thus, micrometeorite bombardment is an extremely important piece of the rings 'evolutionary puzzle because these impurities cause them to darken over time.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Paul Estrada -- From Dust to Planets SETI Institute 2010
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Orbital bombardment is a wonderful way to destroy a planet or the culture on it.
March « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Orbital bombardment is a wonderful way to destroy a planet or the culture on it.
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At 3: 30 in the afternoon, the bombardment from the artillery by land and on the river, began.
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Although the possibility of mach-20+ over-the-horizon bombardment is kind of scary.
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As a heavy particle with no charge, it could be used as a powerful projectile in bombardment experiments.
Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the Early Years of Nuclear Physics 2010
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At 3: 30 in the afternoon, the bombardment from the artillery by land and on the river, began.
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Hope's gunboats came under heavy bombardment from the Chinese batteries, and one, the Plover, lost thirty-one out of her crew of forty, her commander was killed, the admiral was wounded, and the remaining nine seamen were fighting their guns against hopeless odds.
Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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Hope's gunboats came under heavy bombardment from the Chinese batteries, and one, the Plover, lost thirty-one out of her crew of forty, her commander was killed, the admiral was wounded, and the remaining nine seamen were fighting their guns against hopeless odds.
Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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