Bludgeon vs Bombard - What's the difference?
bludgeon | bombard |
A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
* Knolles
(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.
As nouns the difference between bludgeon and bombard
is that bludgeon is a short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end while bombard is a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.As verbs the difference between bludgeon and bombard
is that bludgeon is to strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club while bombard is to attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.bludgeon
English
Noun
(en noun)- We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon .
See also
* truncheonVerb
(en verb)- The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
- Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.
Synonyms
* (to club) cudgel * (coerce) harrass, pummelDerived terms
* bludgeonerReferences
*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.
