bombarded

Verb

bombard (third-person singular simple present bombards, present participle bombarding, simple past and past participle bombarded)

1. To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
   • The enemy's stronghold was bombarded for 3 hours straight.
2. (figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
   • My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did not take kindly to this gay progress, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train with lumps of coal!1954 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 488
3. (figuratively) To continuously send or direct (at someone)
   • I was bombarded with WhatsApp messages after appearing on the news.
4. To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.

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