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/ˈbɒmˌbɑːd/ · noun
A medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls..
They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses.
[…] yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.
With mines and parallels contracts the space; Then bids the battering floats his labors crown And pour their bombard on the shuddering town
The enemy's stronghold was bombarded for 3 hours straight.
My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did not take kindly to this gay progress, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train with lumps of coal!
I was bombarded with WhatsApp messages after appearing on the news.
Please don't bombard me with questions right now, I'll answer them at the end of the statement.
At this point she remembered, sitting there, surrounded by heavy breathing, the constellations flashing, cosmic rays bombarding marvelsome complex coils on the lecturer's dials, that she had forgotten to turn out the gas under the beets.
Use bombard when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bombard means A medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls..
Common synonyms include bomb, pelt, bombardon.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses.
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