bombard
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From French bombarde bombard (as cannon), itself from Greek βαμβος (bambos) 'shattering'
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bombard (plural bombards)
- a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
- (obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument
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medieval primitive cannon
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to bombard (third-person singular simple present bombards, present participle bombarding, simple past and past participle bombarded)
- 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.
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to attack something with bombs, artillery shells, or other missiles
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to attack something or someone by directing objects at them
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to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms
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