(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you ~ someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you ~ them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.
He ~ed Catherine with questions to which he should have known the answers...
I’ve been ~ed by the press and television since I came back from Norway.
VERB: V n with n, be V-ed by n
2.
When soldiers ~ a place, they attack it with continuous heavy gunfire or bombs.
Rebel artillery units have regularly ~ed the airport...
VERB: V n