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The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
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bombardment
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Wiktionary
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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
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
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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 ...
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n. the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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] ||
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.