Dictionary Entry
bombard
bombard is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
- 2noun
A bombardment.
- 3noun
A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
- 4noun
Padded breeches.
- 5noun
See Bombardo.
- 6transitive verb
To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
- 7noun
a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family
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- 8verb
direct high energy particles or radiation against
- 9verb
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"
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- 10verb
throw bombs at or attack with bombs
"The Americans bombed Dresden"
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- 11verb
cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
"They pelted each other with snowballs"
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