Synonyms for bombardment
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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. Carl Alwmark:

   There are too many craters at this point for it just to be a coincidence, 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.

2. Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck:

   After that, the head of state ordered the air force to carry out strikes. With the bombardment, the fighters were forced to decamp from Achigachia.

3. Mahmoud Rashid:

   When someone looks at an article that's anti-Islamic or a video that shows a grooming gang( a group who takes advantage of vulnerable young people, often for sexual exploitation) what happens is that automatically it's' Muslims are doing this,' if there's a constant bombardment of messages that Islam is evil.

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. Pulitzer Prizes Administrator Marjorie Miller:

   Despite bombardment, abductions, occupation and even deaths in their ranks, they have persisted in their effort to provide an accurate picture of a terrible reality, doing honor to Ukraine and to journalists around the world.