Bombard vs Beset - What's the difference?
bombard | beset | Synonyms |
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.
(label) To surround or hem in
(label) To attack, especially from all sides
(label) To decorate something with jewels etc
(label) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice
Bombard is a synonym of beset.
As verbs the difference between bombard and beset
is that bombard is to attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles while beset is (label) to surround or hem in.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.
