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Past tense of bombard

regular verb

The past tense of bombard is bombarded. The past participle is also bombarded.

Forms of bombard

Base form (V1)bombard /ˈbɒmˌbɑːd/
Past tense (V2)bombarded
Past participle (V3)bombarded
Present participlebombarding
Third person singularbombards

Bombarded in a sentence

  • The enemy's stronghold was bombarded for 3 hours straight.
  • I was bombarded with WhatsApp messages after appearing on the news.
  • Growing up, Gen Ys were bombarded with messages, more than any other generation.2013, Diane E. Spiegel, The Gen Y Handbook: Applying Relationship Leadership to Engage Millennials, SelectBooks, →ISBN. From the entry Gen Y
  • We are all bombarded daily with newsworthy and "textworthy" vignettes telling of new psychological findings.1993, Ayala Malakh-Pines, Christina Maslach, Experiencing social psychology: readings and projects. From the entry textworthy
  • Richard Lloyd adds: “People are sick of being bombarded with nuisance calls that invade their privacy and waste their time.”2015 June 9, Tom Parry, “Survivors' guide to cold call plague: How to deal with unwanted nuisance calls and texts”, in Mirror, UK…. From the entry nuisance call

Meaning of bombard

  1. noun A medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
  2. noun A bassoon-like medieval musical instrument.
  3. noun A large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.

Full definition of bombard

Questions about the past tense of bombard

What is the past tense of bombard?
The past tense of bombard is bombarded.
What is the past participle of bombard?
The past participle of bombard is bombarded.
Is bombard a regular or irregular verb?
Bombard is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bombard (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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