bombard
See also: Bombard
English
Pronunciation
- Verb:
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Audio (US): (file)
- Noun:
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈbɑmˌbɑɹd/
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”).
Noun
bombard (plural bombards)
- a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
- Knolles
- 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.
- Knolles
- (obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument
- (obsolete) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- […] yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- (poetic, rare) A bombardment.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Joel Barlow to this entry?)
- (music) A bombardon.
Translations
medieval primitive cannon
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Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French bombarder, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French bombarde (“a bombard”)
Verb
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.
Synonyms
Translations
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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Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun or verb bombard
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