bombard
verb /bɒmˈbɑːd/
/bɑːmˈbɑːrd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bombard | /bɒmˈbɑːd/ /bɑːmˈbɑːrd/ |
| he / she / it bombards | /bɒmˈbɑːdz/ /bɑːmˈbɑːrdz/ |
| past simple bombarded | /bɒmˈbɑːdɪd/ /bɑːmˈbɑːrdɪd/ |
| past participle bombarded | /bɒmˈbɑːdɪd/ /bɑːmˈbɑːrdɪd/ |
| -ing form bombarding | /bɒmˈbɑːdɪŋ/ /bɑːmˈbɑːrdɪŋ/ |
- bombard somebody/something (with something) to attack a place by firing large guns at it or dropping bombs on it continuously
- Madrid was heavily bombarded for several months.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- heavily
- bombard somebody/something (with something) to attack somebody with a lot of questions, criticisms, etc. or by giving them too much information
- We have been bombarded with letters of complaint.
- We are bombarded daily with propaganda about what we should eat.
Extra Examples- We're all constantly bombarded with television ads.
- The interviewer bombarded her with intimate questions.
- The local newspaper has been bombarded with letters from angry residents.
- The media bombard us continually with images of how we should look.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- constantly
- continually
- with
Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun denoting an early form of cannon, also a shawm) from Old French bombarde, probably based on Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin. The verb (late 16th cent.) is from French bombarder.