Definitions for bombard

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bombard bom·bard

Spelling: [verb bom-bahrd, buh m-; noun Bombard is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in bombard (abbdmor).

Definitions for bombard

noun

1. the earliest kind of cannon, originally throwing stone balls.
2. Nautical. bomb ketch.
3. an English leather tankard of the 18th century and earlier, similar to but larger than a blackjack.
4. Obsolete. a leather jug.

verb (used with object)

1. to attack or batter with artillery fire.
2. to attack with bombs.
3. to assail vigorously:
4. Physics. to direct high energy particles or radiations against:

Origin of bombard

1400-50; late Middle English (noun) Medieval Latin bombarda stone-throwing engine (Latin bomb(us) booming noise (see bomb) + -arda -ard)

Examples for bombard

A cry was raised that he meant to seize the citadel and bombard the town.

The Germans will bombard the whole of Paris if the possibility of doing so should be offered them.

Until then it had been judged impracticable to bombard a place from the sea.

Your most grating acquaintance could – and usually would – bombard you with reams of unoriginal drivel at the press of a key.

From this position they began to bombard parts of the inner ring.

Just Google “Patrick Wilson Girls backlash,” and wait for the hateful, Lena Dunham-bashing vitriol to bombard your screen.

If so be that he intends in truth to bombard us, let him begin forthwith.

They continued to bombard these works daily until the 10th of September.

Listen, suppose they got in, suppose they start to bombard Guantanamo?

The Fenians, it was said, were raising a fleet to bombard Halifax.