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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bombardment
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aerial
▪ In 1932 Stanley Baldwin had revealed that, in the opinion of the experts, there was no defence against aerial bombardment.
▪ Taylor was forced to retreat to the eastern outskirts of Monrovia on Oct. 12 following aerial bombardment of his positions.
heavy
▪ Most, it had to be recognised, would have been unable to resist a heavy and sustained bombardment.
▪ Despite a heavy bombardment of the Occra Hills the abuses resumed almost immediately.
▪ On April 27 there was a heavy bombardment of Sarajevo, and fighting intensified thereafter.
▪ Establish as heavy a bombardment as the cannon will stand against the walls and the guns by the walls.
▪ In these theories the late heavy bombardment can be separate from accretion, as in curve B in Figure 6.9.
▪ This is called the late heavy bombardment.
▪ Outline the evidence that some sort of late heavy bombardment occurred on all terrestrial planets. 5.
▪ Outline the arguments for and against the late heavy bombardment of a terrestrial planet occurring after its formation. 6.
naval
▪ Scarborough had even suffered a naval bombardment!
■ NOUN
artillery
▪ The effects of the artillery bombardment and the air strikes had been devastating.
▪ Worse yet, their presence frequently meant indiscriminate artillery bombardments against innocent villages suspected of harboring the Vietcong.
▪ But for some extraordinary reason these bombers were wasted on attacking rail junctions that were already under effective artillery bombardment.
▪ The next day they withdrew under sporadic artillery bombardment.
▪ This took the form of an artillery bombardment in which 6000 were killed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The devastating air bombardment of the last four weeks is only the latest of a series of assaults by foreign armies.
▪ The Germans began their bombardment of Paris in early 1870.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the ejection of grains by bombardment will not be even on a surface such as that shown in Fig. 1 1.2.
▪ Despite a heavy bombardment of the Occra Hills the abuses resumed almost immediately.
▪ Most, it had to be recognised, would have been unable to resist a heavy and sustained bombardment.
▪ These factors, however, made the camps prime targets for enemy attack and bombardment.
▪ Thunder exploded, roll after roll after roll, so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment.
▪ You can not imagine what the first few minutes of that bombardment were like.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bombardment

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] ||

Wiktionary
bombardment

n. 1 the act of bombing, especially towns or cities 2 heavy artillery fire 3 (context physics English) the incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance

WordNet
bombardment

  1. n. 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]

Wikipedia
Bombardment

A bombardment is an attack by artillery fire or by dropping bombs from aircraft on fortifications, combatants, or towns and buildings.

Prior to World War I, the term was only applied to the bombardment of defenseless or undefended objects, houses, public buildings, etc. It was only loosely employed to describe artillery attacks upon forts or fortified positions in preparation for assaults by infantry. Since then, it has come to mean any mass attack delivered by artillery or short-range tactical missiles, and later, aerial bombardment delivered by aircraft or long-range missiles.

Bombardment (disambiguation)

Bombardment is an attack by artillery fire directed against fortifications. It may also refer to:

Specific bombardments:
  • Bombardment of Alexandria (1882)
  • Bombardment of Algiers (disambiguation) (several)
  • Bombardment of Brussels (1695)
  • Bombardment of Curaçao (1942)
  • Bombardment of Fort Stevens (1942)
  • Bombardment of Genoa (1684)
  • Bombardment of Kagoshima (1863)
  • Bombardment of Madras (1914)
  • Bombardment of Papeete (1914)
  • Bombardment of Punta Sombrero (1847)
  • Bombardment of Kagoshima (1863)
  • Bombardment of Shimonoseki (1863/64)
  • Bombardment of Tourane (1847)
Other meanings:
  • Kinetic bombardment in space warfare
  • Naval bombardment
  • Late Heavy Bombardment, a period in cosmology
  • Bombardment, a process in the manufacture of neon tubes
  • A variant of dodgeball
See also:
  • Area bombardment
  • Bomb

Usage examples of "bombardment".

During the height of this bombardment, Bade succeeded in gradually filtering all of Landing Force 3 back to the protection of the ships.

They followed the pattern established in 1944 preliminary air bombing and naval bombardment, assault troops landing from APDs and beaching craft, Japanese retiring to the jungle and having to be rooted out.

Catelet Copse when the Boche suddenly started a short hurricane bombardment.

Ship after ship vanished in the white flares of nuclear explosions, before the fleet rayed out to escape the deadliness of the bombardment.

The defaulters were out there, advancing through the gloom, and every minute could bring a fresh AT bombardment.

The bomb vessels, being placed in the narrow channel of the river leading to Ronfleur, began to throw their shells, and continued the bombardment for two-and-fifty hours, without intermission, during which a numerous body of French troops were employed in throwing up intrenchments, erecting new batteries, and firing both with shot and shells upon the assailants.

On the 12th day of April, 1861, the insurgents committed the flagrant act of civil war by the bombardment and the capture of Fort Sumter, Which cut off the hope of immediate conciliation.

President to use force in vindication of American rights of person and property abroad was demonstrated in 1854 by the bombardment of Greytown, Nicaragua by Lieutenant Hollins of the U.

Upon his return to the United States Hollins was sued in a federal court by one Durand for the value of certain property which was alleged to have been destroyed in the bombardment.

Nicky Kix enjoyed the exquisite agony of having every water molecule in his cranium boil under an intense microwave bombardment.

European jungle as the poison gas called Lewisite and the shattered bodies of children killed in the bombardment of an open town.

For four nights Sharpe watched the bombardment, each night from the mirador, and the red-hot shot seared in the darkness and crashed into the crumbling forts.

In this way a whole week dragged itself by, and, on the morning of the eighth day after the German entry into Rheims, Mother Meraut and the Twins left home earlier than usual in order to reach the Cathedral before the bombardment, which they had learned daily to expect, should begin.

They had started early in order to be well out of Rheims before the daily bombardment should begin.

And then he told the Captain of his being brought wounded to the Cathedral in Rheims, of its bombardment and burning, and of his rescue by Pierre and Pierrette.