The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bombard \Bom*bard"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bombarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bombarding.] To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
Next, she means to bombard Naples.
--Burke.
His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe.
--Wood.
Wiktionary
n. bombardment vb. (present participle of bombard English)
Usage examples of "bombarding".
He had been bombarding Chatillon, he said, and he supposed he should soon receive orders to recommence.
Oldendorf, who commanded the gunfire support ships, then steamed boldly into the Gulf and commenced bombarding the landing beaches to cover operations of the UDTs.
At noon 6 January, when battleship New Mexico was bombarding the shore, she was crashed on the port wing of her navigating bridge by a Japanese plane already in flames.
Attacks from enemy bases to the eastward, particularly from Havre, were warded off, and in the west an Allied naval bombarding squadron co-operated later with the American Army in the capture of Cherbourg.
We were five hours sailing before we reached the line of battleships bombarding at about fifteen thousand yards.
On the west coast British, American, and French forces were continually in action, bombarding and harassing the enemy, driving off persistent attacks by light craft and midget submarines, and clearing mines in the liberated ports.
We have great need to sustain our bombarding fleet, which may have to deal with Cherbourg, and will certainly be required for the flanks of the liberating armies.
Rather than devise a model of the atom based on theoretical ideas as Thomson had done, Rutherford intended to probe atomic structure by bombarding atoms with particles ejected from radioactive atoms.
At Minami the TBMs worked for twenty minutes with cruisers and destroyers which were bombarding the island installations, dropping flares and spotting the fall of shot for the ships.
But the vicious sword took that fear and transformed it, bombarding poor Delly with images of her child being massacred by those same orcs, turning her terror into red rage so completely that she was soon running headlong for the camp.