bombardment
bom bord muhnt
- n the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)
a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake - n the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- n the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays)
- n an attack by dropping bombs
- Syria also has hundreds of bombardment rockets, some with chemical warheads, but unlike the Hizballah guerrillas, it must fear Israeli retaliation.
- A Georgian man cries as he holds the body of his relative after a bombardment in Gori, near South Ossetia, Georgia.
- A day later the Israeli bombardment of West Beirut began.