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bombardment

[ bom-bahrd-muhnt ]

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noun

a continuous or sustained attack, as with bombs or artillery fire:
The rebel attacks were followed by government counterattacks that included airstrikes and artillery bombardment.
The moon’s surface bears the scars of countless impact craters caused by the asteroid bombardment it has suffered over the eons.
an overwhelming quantity or barrage of something:
We are all fed up with the incessant preelection bombardment of campaign mailers.
Entering the stadium, you are immediately hit with a sensory bombardment: the buzz and crackle of massive television monitors, the smell of over-priced hotdogs and nachos.
Physics. the act or action of directing particles or radiation against something, such as a nucleus:
In a conventional cathode-ray tube, the inside coating of the faceplate emits light in response to electron bombardment.
Neutron bombardment of the uranium in the fuel converts some of it to plutonium, which is fissionable.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bombardment¹

bombard ( def ) + -ment ( def )

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Anton added that Francis had called no matter what the circumstance — whether there was shooting, or bombardments or fighting, and he never tired of advocating for the church in Gaza.

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Some of the more recent protests suggest that civilians, driven to the edge of madness by a year and a half of Israeli bombardment, are losing their fear of Hamas.

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Israel resumed its bombardment of Gaza on 18 March and then restarted ground operations, saying it was targeting Hamas.

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Under constant bombardment, el-Fasher has been largely cut off from the outside world for a year, making it impossible for journalists to enter the city.

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Israeli bombardment has killed 1,542 people since it renewed the war on 18 March, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says.

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