Synonyms for bombardment
bom·bard·ment

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1. barrage, bombardment, outpouring, onslaughtnoun

   the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)

   "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake"

   Synonyms:
   battery, onrush, overflow, spring, fountain, onset, shelling, discharge, gush, onslaught, flood, run, attack, barrage, bombing, natural spring, barrage fire, outpouring, flush, outflow

2. barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shellingnoun

   the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target

   "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing"

   Synonyms:
   barrage fire, barrage, outpouring, stamp battery, electric battery, onslaught, shelling, assault and battery, battery, bombing

3. bombardmentnoun

   the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays)

   Synonyms:
   battery, outpouring, bombing, barrage fire, shelling, onslaught, barrage

4. bombing, bombardmentnoun

   an attack by dropping bombs

   Synonyms:
   barrage fire, barrage, outpouring, onslaught, shelling, battery, bombing

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1. • Attack
   • Fire
   • Radiation

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1. dodgeball

   to strike a player with a rubber ball. while the person without the ball runs away.

   during bombardment i was the second person out.

   Submitted by rinat on August 11, 2019  

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1. bombardmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   attack with bombs

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1. List of paraphrases for "bombardment":

   bombing, shelling, bombed, bombarded, strikes, strike, shelled, bombings, airstrike, bombard, bomber, gunfire, bomb

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1. Kassem Eid:

   I just want to tell President Donald Trump directly : I'm a Syrian refugee who survived chemical weapons attacks, who lived under two years of siege and bombardment by The Syrian government, i would love to, like, buy you a beer, and just sit in front of you and tell you how bad it is in Syria.

2. Clarissa Ward:

   Firstly, in the run-up to this cessation of hostilities there was a dramatic increase in the intensiveness ... of Russian aerial bombardment and also of the regime warplanes of Bashar al-Assad, secondly, the people living in rebel territory don't trust the Assad regime and see this cessation of hostilities as a trick designed so that the regime can take more territory.

3. Carl Alwmark:

   If we start finding even more of these larger craters, then you should start speculating about whether this [bombardment] could have had a profound impact on the evolution of Earth's biology.

4. William Bottke:

   This means that the Earth has fewer older craters on its most stable regions not because of erosion, but because the impact rate was lower prior to 290 million years ago, the Moon is like a time capsule, helping us understand the Earth. We found that The Moon shared a similar bombardment history, which meant the answer to Earth's impact rate was staring everyone right in the face.

5. David Kring:

   It is an extraordinary find that helps paint a better picture of early Earth and the bombardment that modified our planet during the dawn of life.