Bombard vs Besiege - What's the difference?
bombard | besiege | 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.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
(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 beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
To beleaguer, lay siege to, beset.
to assail or ply, as with requests or demands.
Bombard is a synonym of besiege.
As verbs the difference between bombard and besiege
is that bombard is to attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles while besiege is (label) to beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.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.