Beleaguer vs Bombard - What's the difference?
beleaguer | bombard | Synonyms |
a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
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(obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument
(obsolete) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
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(poetic, rare) A bombardment.
(music) A bombardon.
To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
(figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
(physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
Beleaguer is a synonym of bombard.
As verbs the difference between beleaguer and bombard
is that beleaguer is to besiege; to surround with troops while bombard is to attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.As a noun bombard is
a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.bombard
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.