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 Definitions for bombardment: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Bombardment \Bom*bard"ment\, 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] Bombardo
WordNet (r) 2.0
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bombardment
n 1: the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance
to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or
alpha rays)
2: 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" [syn: barrage, barrage fire, battery,
shelling]
3: an attack by dropping bombs [syn: bombing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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46 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
volley
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