bombardment

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Militarybombardmentbom‧bard‧ment /bɒmˈbɑːdmənt $ bɑːmˈbɑːrd-/ noun [countable, uncountable] PMa continuous attack on a place by big guns and bombs The bombardment continued for a terrible nine hours.aerial/artillery/naval bombardment (=attack from the air, land, or sea)Examples from the Corpusbombardment• These factors, however, made the camps prime targets for enemy attack and bombardment.• But the ejection of grains by bombardment will not be even on a surface such as that shown in Fig. 1 1.2.• Thunder exploded, roll after roll after roll, so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment.• Most, it had to be recognised, would have been unable to resist a heavy and sustained bombardment.• You can not imagine what the first few minutes of that bombardment were like.aerial/artillery/naval bombardment• Scarborough had even suffered a naval bombardment!• In 1932 Stanley Baldwin had revealed that, in the opinion of the experts, there was no defence against aerial bombardment.• But for some extraordinary reason these bombers were wasted on attacking rail junctions that were already under effective artillery bombardment.• Taylor was forced to retreat to the eastern outskirts of Monrovia on Oct. 12 following aerial bombardment of his positions.• Worse yet, their presence frequently meant indiscriminate artillery bombardments against innocent villages suspected of harboring the Vietcong.• The next day they withdrew under sporadic artillery bombardment.• The effects of the artillery bombardment and the air strikes had been devastating.

单词	bombardment
释义	bombardment From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Militarybombardmentbom‧bard‧ment /bɒmˈbɑːdmənt $ bɑːmˈbɑːrd-/ noun [countable, uncountable] PMa continuous attack on a place by big guns and bombs The bombardment continued for a terrible nine hours.aerial/artillery/naval bombardment (=attack from the air, land, or sea)Examples from the Corpusbombardment• These factors, however, made the camps prime targets for enemy attack and bombardment.• But the ejection of grains by bombardment will not be even on a surface such as that shown in Fig. 1 1.2.• Thunder exploded, roll after roll after roll, so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment.• Most, it had to be recognised, would have been unable to resist a heavy and sustained bombardment.• You can not imagine what the first few minutes of that bombardment were like.aerial/artillery/naval bombardment• Scarborough had even suffered a naval bombardment!• In 1932 Stanley Baldwin had revealed that, in the opinion of the experts, there was no defence against aerial bombardment.• But for some extraordinary reason these bombers were wasted on attacking rail junctions that were already under effective artillery bombardment.• Taylor was forced to retreat to the eastern outskirts of Monrovia on Oct. 12 following aerial bombardment of his positions.• Worse yet, their presence frequently meant indiscriminate artillery bombardments against innocent villages suspected of harboring the Vietcong.• The next day they withdrew under sporadic artillery bombardment.• The effects of the artillery bombardment and the air strikes had been devastating.
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