'Bombardment' definitions:
Definition of 'bombardment'
(from WordNet)
noun
The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written); "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake" [syn: barrage, bombardment, outpouring, onslaught]
noun
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, bombardment, shelling]
noun
The act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays)
noun
An attack by dropping bombs [syn: bombing, bombardment]
Definition of 'Bombardment'
From: GCIDE
- 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] Bombardo
Synonyms of 'bombardment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air raid,
- alpha decay,
- atom-chipping,
- atom-smashing,
- atomic disintegration,
- atomic reaction,
- atomization,
- beta decay,
- blitz,
- blitzkrieg,
- breeding,
- broadside,
- bullet,
- burst,
- cannonade,
- chain reaction,
- cleavage,
- disintegration series,
- dissociation,
- drumfire,
- exchange reaction,
- fission,
- fission reaction,
- fusillade,
- gamma decay,
- hail,
- ionization,
- lightning attack,
- lightning war,
- neutron reaction,
- nonreversible reaction,
- nuclear fission,
- nucleization,
- photodisintegration,
- proton gun,
- proton reaction,
- reversible reaction,
- salvo,
- shower,
- splitting the atom,
- stimulation,
- strafe,
- strafing,
- target,
- thermonuclear reaction,
- volley