📚 noun • entry_id 1947
bombard
/ˈbɒmˌbɑːd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bombarda
A medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
bombardear
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 ti…
bombardear
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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