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bombardment
[bom-bahrd-muhnt]
noun
a continuous or sustained attack, as with bombs or artillery fire.
The rebel attacks were followed by government counterattacks that included airstrikes and artillery bombardment.
The moon’s surface bears the scars of countless impact craters caused by the asteroid bombardment it has suffered over the eons.
an overwhelming quantity or barrage of something.
We are all fed up with the incessant preelection bombardment of campaign mailers.
Entering the stadium, you are immediately hit with a sensory bombardment: the buzz and crackle of massive television monitors, the smell of over-priced hotdogs and nachos.
Physics., the act or action of directing particles or radiation against something, such as a nucleus.
In a conventional cathode-ray tube, the inside coating of the faceplate emits light in response to electron bombardment.
Neutron bombardment of the uranium in the fuel converts some of it to plutonium, which is fissionable.
Word History and Origins
Origin of bombardment1
Example Sentences
He continued that the family "cannot be said to come to the court with clean hands", citing a "bombardment" of requests to enter Ms Higson's property.
Following the strikes, Hamas said the army's westward push of the yellow line and continued bombardment of eastern Gaza amounted to a "blatant breach" of the agreement.
As the cease-fire removes the fear of being killed in bombardments, Meqdad has returned to his home and said he feels safer now that order has been restored in the streets.
With Myanmar in disarray, under heavy bombardment and amid rampant rights abuses, there is no way the country can hold free and fair elections next month, the UN rights chief said Monday.
Ukraine faces a "very significant" risk of heating outages as Russian bombardments hit infrastructure hard ahead of the war's fourth winter, a Ukrainian energy expert warned Wednesday.
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