bombard

[ verb bom-bahrd, buhm-; noun bom-bahrd ]

verbassault, attack

Synonyms for bombard

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Antonyms for bombard

leave alone

Word Origin & History

early 15c., "catapult, military engine for throwing large stones," from Middle French bombarde "mortar, catapult" (14c.), from bombe (see bomb (n.)). The same word, from the same source, was used in English and French late 14c. in reference to the bass shawm, a bassoon-like musical instrument, preserving the "buzzing" sense in the Latin.

Example Sentences forbombard

The Germans will bombard the whole of Paris if the possibility of doing so should be offered them.

From this position they began to bombard parts of the inner ring.

If so be that he intends in truth to bombard us, let him begin forthwith.

They continued to bombard these works daily until the 10th of September.

The Fenians, it was said, were raising a fleet to bombard Halifax.

A cry was raised that he meant to seize the citadel and bombard the town.

Until then it had been judged impracticable to bombard a place from the sea.

An early name for a long gun, but of smaller dimensions than a bombard.

Several gunboats had also come up the river to bombard the forts.

Then we have another fleet in our Channel, ready to bombard the French coast.

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