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bombardment

US/bɑmbɑɹdmənt/

bombardment noun: the act of bombing, especially towns or cities.

bombardment: the act of bombing, especially towns or cities
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Noun

bombardment (countable and uncountable, plural bombardments)

  1. The act of bombing, especially towns or cities.
  2. Heavy artillery fire.
    Synonyms:
    cannonade
  3. The incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance.
  4. (figuratively) An onslaught of criticism etc.

bombardment meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Odia

bombardment in Tamil

சரமாரிக் குண்டுவீச்சுத் தாக்குதல், குண்டுகளினால் தாக்குதல், அடித்துமோதுகை, தாக்குதல், தொடர் தாக்குதல், மோதவெறிகை

bombardment in Urdu

bombardment, bombing
گولہ باری golah bārī

bombardment in Bengali

বোমাবর্ষণ, গোলাবর্ষণ

bombardment in Odia

ବୋମା ବର୍ଷଣ
More languagesFewer languages
bombardment in Tagalog
pagtampol, tampol
bombardment in Arabic
قَصْف qaṣf
bombardment in Persian
بمباردمان bombârdemân

Examples of bombardment in a sentence

  • Most of the town of Vovchansk was destroyed overnight due to the intense bombardment.
  • Thus, the bombardment mission was still possible to accomplish, since, on the U.S.
  • But his paint-bombing bombardment and this train are generative, fecund gestures, as well as scatalogical.

All 15 example sentences with bombardment

Synonyms of bombardment

Forms of bombardment

pluralbombardments

Plural of bombardment: bombardments

Origin of bombardment

From bombard + -ment.

Words formed from bombardment

Questions about bombardment

What does bombardment mean?
Bombardment means the act of bombing, especially towns or cities.
What is bombardment in Tamil?
Bombardment in Tamil is சரமாரிக் குண்டுவீச்சுத் தாக்குதல், குண்டுகளினால் தாக்குதல், அடித்துமோதுகை. See Bombardment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bombardment?
Bombardment is a noun.
How do you pronounce bombardment?
Bombardment is pronounced /bɑmbɑɹdmənt/ (US).
What is the plural of bombardment?
The plural of bombardment is bombardments.

Words near bombardment in the dictionary

  1. bombardiers
  2. bombarding
  3. bombardings
  4. bombardman
  5. bombardmen
  6. bombardment
  7. bombardments
  8. bombardo
  9. bombardon
  10. bombardons
  11. bombardos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bombardment (page history and authors); bombardment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); گولہ باری (Urdu) (page history and authors); bombardment (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bombardment (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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