bombardment
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
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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.
Etymology
Origin of bombardment
Example Sentences
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The bacteria were then exposed to radiation equivalent to 20 million years of cosmic ray bombardment on the Martian surface.
From Science Daily
Nangarhar police told AFP the bombardment started at around midnight and hit three districts.
From Barron's
As for everyone else, she sees it as a beneficial tool for a person’s wellness routine, much like yoga or meditation, something to help us reset amid the “constant bombardment of external feedback.”
From Los Angeles Times
When a Wall Street Journal team visited the plant recently following the latest bombardment, workers moved through soot-covered halls with flashlights to examine the severely damaged facility.
Rimas, a 16-year-old boxer, said she and her friends continued "to practise boxing despite the war, the bombardments and the destruction".
From Barron's
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