Bombard vs Inundate - What's the difference?
bombard | inundate |
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.
To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
To overwhelm.
As verbs the difference between bombard and inundate
is that bombard is to attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles while inundate is to cover with large amounts of water; to flood.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.
Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* bombDerived terms
* bombardier * bombardment * bombard phraseinundate
English
Verb
(inundat)- The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
- The agency was inundated with phone calls.