Bombard Synonyms

bŏm-bärd, bəm-
To direct a barrage at
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. barrage
  2. cannonade
  3. fusillade
  4. pepper
  5. shower
Address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bomb
  2. attack
  3. assault
  4. besiege
  5. barrage
  6. batter
  7. blast
  8. beset
  9. blitz
  10. blitzkrieg
  11. pelt
  12. pound
  13. shell
  14. strike
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Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pelt
A large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bombardon
To assail persistently; harass:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. barrage
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Bombard Sentence Examples

  • In November 1897, when the Austro-Hungarian flag was insulted at Mersina, he threatened to bombard the town if instant reparation were not made, and by his firm attitude greatly enhanced Austrian prestige in the East.

  • More rarely their patience became exhausted, and ships were sent to bombard this nest of pirates.

  • In 1824 another British fleet under Admiral Sir Harry Neal had again to bombard Algiers.

  • Sir John Bowring, who represented Great Britain in China, failing to secure the reparation and apology which he demanded, directed the British admiral to bombard Canton.

  • The commander of the artillery of the 3rd Corps, General Fouche, will place the howitzers of the 3rd and 8th Corps, sixteen in all, on the flanks of the battery that is to bombard the entrenchment on the left, which will have forty guns in all directed against it.

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