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Bombard

//ˈbɑmˌbɑɹd// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from French.
Noun
  1. 1
    A medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family wordnet
  3. 3
    A bassoon-like medieval musical instrument. obsolete
  4. 4
    A large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle. obsolete

    "[…] yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor."

  5. 5
    A bombardment. poetic, rare

    "With mines and parallels contracts the space; Then bids the battering floats his labors crown And pour their bombard on the shuddering town"

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  1. 6
    A bombardon.
Verb
  1. 1
    To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.

    "The enemy's stronghold was bombarded for 3 hours straight."

  2. 2
    direct high energy particles or radiation against wordnet
  3. 3
    To attack something or someone by directing objects at them. figuratively

    "My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did not take kindly to this gay progress, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train with lumps of coal!"

  4. 4
    address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage wordnet
  5. 5
    To continuously send or direct (at someone) figuratively

    "I was bombarded with WhatsApp messages after appearing on the news."

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  1. 6
    throw bombs at or attack with bombs wordnet
  2. 7
    To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
  3. 8
    cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English bombard, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”). The modern pronunciation is from modern French bombarde.

Etymology 2

From French bombarder, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard”).

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