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bombardment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bombardment has 4 senses
- bombardment(n = noun.communication) barrage, onslaught, outpouring - the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written); "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake" is a kind of language, linguistic communication
- bombardment(n = noun.act) barrage, barrage fire, battery, shelling - the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing" is a kind of fire, firing
- bombardment(n = noun.act) Array - the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays); Array is a kind of radiation
- bombardment(n = noun.act) bombing - an attack by dropping bombs; Array is a kind of attack, onrush, onset, onslaught
Derived form verb bombard3
has particulars: bombing run, area bombing, carpet bombing, saturation bombing
Derived form verb bombard2
CIDE DICTIONARY
bombardment, n. [F. bombardement.].
An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
bombardment
air raid, alpha decay, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, beta decay, blitz, blitzkrieg, breeding, broadside, bullet, burst, cannonade, chain reaction, cleavage, disintegration series, dissociation, drumfire, exchange reaction, fission, fission reaction, fusillade, gamma decay, hail, ionization, lightning attack, lightning war, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, photodisintegration, proton gun, proton reaction, reversible reaction, salvo, shower, splitting the atom, stimulation, strafe, strafing, target, thermonuclear reaction, volleyROGET THESAURUS
bombardment
Attack
N attack, assault, assault and battery, onset, onslaught, charge, aggression, offense, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, outbreak, estrapade, ruade, coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray, run at, run against, dead set at, storm, storming, boarding, escalade, siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade, fire, volley, platoon fire, file fire, fusillade, sharpshooting, broadside, raking fire, cross fire, volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer, cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust, coupe de bec, kick, punch, battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade, devastation, eboulement, assailant, aggressor, invader, base of operations, point of attack, echelon, attacking, aggressive, offensive, obsidional, up in arms, on the offensive, Int, up and at them!, the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death, their fatal hands no second stroke intend, thirst for glory quells the love of life.
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