BOMBARD


Meaning of BOMBARD in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bɒmbɑ:(r)d ]

( bombards, bombarding, bombarded)

1.

If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.

He bombarded Catherine with questions to which he should have known the answers...

I’ve been bombarded by the press and television since I came back from Norway.

VERB : V n with n , be V-ed by n

2.

When soldiers bombard a place, they attack it with continuous heavy gunfire or bombs.

Rebel artillery units have regularly bombarded the airport...

VERB : V n

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