verb (used with object)
Origin of bombard
Synonyms for bombard
Related Words for bombardedhound, bomb, besiege, pester, blitz, harass, barrage, batter, blast, strafe, catapult, shell, launch, cannonade, beset, pound, strike, assail
Examples from the Web for bombarded
Contemporary Examples of bombarded
After the show, Mollie says she was bombarded online and in real life with praise.This Baby Can Work a Runway
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She claims Hollande has bombarded her with text messages, as many as 29 a day.Hollande's Jilted Lover Valerie Trierweiler Tells All
September 3, 2014
Israel launched the operation after Hamas bombarded civilians with hundreds of rockets.Hamas, Not the IDF, Killed This Man's Child
March 11, 2013
For Obama, it was his visit to a southern Israeli city that had been bombarded with Hamas rockets.Marco Rubio Really Loves Israel and Has Pictures to Prove It
February 21, 2013
The legislators were also bombarded with thousands of anti-ban emails.Another Massacre’s Gun Law Lesson, From Stockton, Calif., Survivors
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Historical Examples of bombarded
To offset this (p. 096) the Germans bombarded the British line at that point.
On the same day Rheims was bombarded, fifty shells falling there.
Tirlemont was bombarded, reduced, and evacuated by the Belgian troops.
When she had gone Captain Obed was bombarded with questions.Thankful's Inheritance
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The town of Ismailia, on the lake border, also was bombarded.
verb (bɒmˈbɑːd) (tr)
Word Origin for bombard
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.
1590s, from French bombarder, from bombarde "mortar, catapult" (see bombard (n.)). Figurative sense by 1765. Related: Bombarded; bombarding.