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bombarding

bom·bard
B b

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [verb bom-bahrd, buh m-; noun bom-bahrd]
    • /verb bɒmˈbɑrd, bəm-; noun ˈbɒm bɑrd/
    • /bɒmˈbɑːd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [verb bom-bahrd, buh m-; noun bom-bahrd]
    • /verb bɒmˈbɑrd, bəm-; noun ˈbɒm bɑrd/

Definitions of bombarding word

  • verb with object bombarding to attack or batter with artillery fire. 1
  • verb with object bombarding to attack with bombs. 1
  • verb with object bombarding to assail vigorously: to bombard the speaker with questions. 1
  • verb with object bombarding Physics. to direct high energy particles or radiations against: to bombard a nucleus. 1
  • noun bombarding the earliest kind of cannon, originally throwing stone balls. 1
  • noun bombarding Nautical. bomb ketch. 1
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Origin of bombarding

First appearance:

before 1400
One of the 24% oldest English words
1400-50; late Middle English (noun) < Medieval Latin bombarda stone-throwing engine (Latin bomb(us) booming noise (see bomb) + -arda -ard)

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Parts of speech for Bombarding

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Bombarding

bombarding popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 75% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for bombarding

noun bombarding

  • cannonading — a continued discharge of cannon, especially during an attack.
  • cross-fire — lines of gunfire from two or more positions or combatants crossing one another, or a single one of such lines.
  • crossfire — Crossfire is gunfire, for example in a battle, that comes from two or more different directions and passes through the same area.
  • fire — combustion
All 4 Synonyms of bombarding

Related words

  • artificial radioactivity

    radioactivity introduced into a nonradioactive substance by bombarding the substance with charged particles.

  • ion implantation

    a method of implanting impurities below the surface of a solid, usually a semiconductor, by bombarding the solid with a beam of ions of the impurity.

  • transuranic element

    any element having an atomic number greater than 92, the atomic number of uranium. All such elements are radioactive and can be synthesized by bombarding a heavy element with a light particle or element. See also transactinide element.
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