Bombarded vs Bombardment - What's the difference?
bombarded | bombardment |
(bombard)
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.
the act of bombing, especially towns or cities
heavy artillery fire
(physics) the incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance
Bombarded is a see also of bombardment.
As a verb bombarded
is (bombard).As a noun bombardment is
the act of bombing, especially towns or cities.bombarded
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(head)bombard
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(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.