Synonyms for bombard
bɒmˈbɑrd, bəm-; ˈbɒm bɑrdbom·bard

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1. bombardverb

   Synonyms:
   bomb

2. bombardverb

   To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.

   Synonyms:
   bomb

3. bombardverb

   To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.

   Synonyms:
   bomb

4. bombardverb

   To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.

   Synonyms:
   bomb

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1. bombardon, bombardverb

   a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family

   Synonyms:
   helicon, bombardon

2. pelt, bombardverb

   cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile

   "They pelted each other with snowballs"

   Synonyms:
   barrage, pepper, pelt, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, bomb, pour, stream

3. bombard, bombverb

   throw bombs at or attack with bombs

   "The Americans bombed Dresden"

   Synonyms:
   fail, pelt, barrage, flunk, flush it, bomb

4. bombard, barrageverb

   address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage

   "The speaker was barraged by an angry audience"; "The governor was bombarded with requests to grant a pardon to the convicted killer"

   Synonyms:
   pelt, barrage, bomb

5. bombardverb

   direct high energy particles or radiation against

   Synonyms:
   pelt, barrage, bomb

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Irradiate
   • Physics
   • Throw

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1. bombardverb

   Synonyms:
   attack with bombs

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1. List of paraphrases for "bombard":

   bombards, bomb, bombs, bombardment, strikes

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1. Massoud Barzani:

   We condemn this bombardment that led to the martyrdom of people from the Kurdistan region and call on Turkey not to bombard civilians again.

2. Stephen Hess:

   From the very moment that he was appointed, before Nixon was even president, Daniel Patrick Moynihan started to bombard him with memos.

3. Orysia Lutsevych:

   He basically annihilated and obliterated the second-largest Syrian town of Aleppo. And his strategy was simply to bombard anything that was alive, target civilian infrastructure -- hospitals and schools -- and then basically take over what was left, it is a similar strategy we are already seeing in Controlling Mariupol.