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Bombardment

noun

The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written). Synonyms: barrage, onslaught, outpouring. "A bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake"

The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target. Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, shelling. "The shelling went on for hours without pausing"

The act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays).

An attack by dropping bombs. Synonym: bombing.

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"Bombardment" Quotes from Famous Books

... being torn and rent by the deadly fire of more than fifty field guns, of the trenches being enfiladed and the green fumes of Lyddite rising up from the doomed camp. Cronje emerges with a casualty roll of 170 men, and the only inconvenience from our bombardment experienced by the ladies was the slight abrasion ...

— With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train • Ernest N. Bennett

... 1815 our Commodore Decatur sailed into this harbor and sent a message to the Dey of Algiers demanding the release of all Americans then held in captivity, threatening to bombard the city if the prisoners were not set free. The Dey after some demur yielded through fear of bombardment and liberated all the Americans; but sent a message to the Commodore requesting that a tribute in the shape of powder be given him in exchange for the captives. 'If the Dey wants powder, he must take the balls with it,' ...

— A Trip to the Orient - The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise • Robert Urie Jacob

... distinguished themselves by their signal failure to effect the reduction of such minor fortresses as Sveaborg, Helsingfors, and the fortified lighthouses upon the Gulf of Finland. Their respective Admirals fired their severest broadsides into each other, and the bombardment of the forts was silenced by the smart interchange of nautical civilities between the two flagships. Napoleon III, who sought an explanation of this failure of his fleet, was given a reply that I cannot refrain from recommending ...

— The Crime Against Europe - A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 • Roger Casement

... jealous of the great Skoda works near Pilsen in Austria. My hotel manager spoke with some acerbity of the amount of advertising the Austrian siege howitzers were receiving. "You can accept my assurance," he said, "that the guns for the bombardment of Dover were made here, and not at the Skoda ...

— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin

... Stanchion-rails were unshipped; everything likely to splinter was sent below. In the wake of the armoured protection, sandbags were placed to reinforce the steel plating. Although the patrol-vessels were not to take part in the bombardment, they had to be prepared in case a forlorn hope in the shape of a few German torpedo-boats might attempt a ...

— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman

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