ALL meanings of bombard
bom·bard
B b - verb bombard If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them. 3
- verb bombard When soldiers bombard a place, they attack it with continuous heavy gunfire or bombs. 3
- verb bombard to attack with concentrated artillery fire or bombs 3
- verb bombard to attack with vigour and persistence 3
- verb bombard to attack verbally, esp with questions 3
- verb bombard to direct high-energy particles or photons against (atoms, nuclei, etc) esp to produce ions or nuclear transformations 3
- noun bombard an ancient type of cannon that threw stone balls 3
- verb transitive bombard to attack with or as with artillery or bombs 3
- verb transitive bombard to keep attacking or pressing with questions, suggestions, etc. 3
- verb transitive bombard to direct a stream of particles at (atomic nuclei) to produce nuclear transmutations 3
- noun bombard the earliest type of cannon, originally for hurling stones 3
- verb with object bombard to attack or batter with artillery fire. 1
- verb with object bombard to attack with bombs. 1
- verb with object bombard to assail vigorously: to bombard the speaker with questions. 1
- verb with object bombard Physics. to direct high energy particles or radiations against: to bombard a nucleus. 1
- noun bombard the earliest kind of cannon, originally throwing stone balls. 1
- noun bombard Nautical. bomb ketch. 1
- noun bombard an English leather tankard of the 18th century and earlier, similar to but larger than a blackjack. 1
- noun bombard Obsolete. a leather jug. 1
- noun bombard a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls. 0
- noun bombard (Obsolete (No longer in use)) a bassoon-like medieval instrument. 0
- noun bombard (Obsolete (No longer in use)) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle. 0
- noun bombard (poetic, rare) A bombardment. 0
- noun bombard (music) A bombardon. 0
- verb bombard To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles. 0
- verb bombard (figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them. 0
- verb bombard (physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms. 0