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Definition of Bombard

1. Verb. Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile. "They pelted each other with snowballs"

2. Noun. A large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family.

3. Verb. Throw bombs at or attack with bombs. "The Americans bombed Dresden"

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

5. Verb. Direct high energy particles or radiation against.

Definition of Bombard

1. n. A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.

2. n. See Bombardo.

3. v. t. To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.

Definition of Bombard

1. Noun. a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument ¹

3. Verb. To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles. ¹

4. Verb. (figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them. ¹

5. Verb. (physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bombard

1. to bomb [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: bomb

Medical Definition of Bombard

1. 1. A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. "They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses." (Knolles) 2. A bombardment. 3. A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. "Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor." (Shak) 4. Padded breeches. Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. Origin: F. Bombarde, LL. Bombarda, fr. L. Bombus + -ard. Cf. Bumper, and see Bomb. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bombard

bomb around bomb blast bomb calorimeter bomb it bomb out bomb rack bomb shelter bomb shelters bomb site bomb sites

bomb up bomba bombable bombace bombard (current term) bombarded bombarder bombarders bombardier bombardier beetle

bombardier beetles bombardiers bombarding bombardman bombardmen bombardment bombardments bombardon bombardons

Literary usage of Bombard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"Boman, therefore, must be supported, if at all, by some other passage. bombard. A sort of cannon. [Properly, large machines for casting heavy stones in the ..."

2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"OF buire (F. turc), coarse red cloth. — L. burrus ; as above. Bombast, orig. cotton-wadding: hence, padding, affected language. (Ital. — L. — Bomb, bombard. ..."

3. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"They bombard Dieppe, Havre-de-Grace, Dunkirk, and Calais—§ XLI. Admiral Russel sails for the Mediterranean, relieves Barcelona, and winters at Cadiz—§ XLII. ..."

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