bombard

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Where we waited to bombard, as at Helles and Sedd-el-Bahr, we have got it in the neck This "V" Beach business is the blot.

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  1. transitive verb To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles.
  2. transitive verb To assail persistently, as with requests. See Synonyms at attack, barrage2.
  3. transitive verb To irradiate (an atom).
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  • Based on their data and estimates of ad pricing, they concluded that in general an ad-supported application would have to "bombard" users with ads in order to generate as much revenue as a paid version. —  MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors
  • The Options are written in language even the noobs will understand and they don't bombard you with crap you shouldn't be changing in the first place. —  Nordquist Blog
  • Calmdown YB lim next time dont bombard without survey first. —  Planet Malaysia
  • America's Best Dance Crew can compete with the barrage of dance shows that seem to bombard TV sets today. —  BuddyTV
  • Such attacks, known as "denial of service" attacks, are triggered when computers in a network are simultaneously ordered to bombard a site with millions of requests, which overloads a server and causes it to shut down. —  Dagney's Rant
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bombard:   bombarded ·  bombarding
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  1. From Middle English, a bombard, from Old French bombarde, from Medieval Latin bombarda, probably from Latin bombus, a booming sound; see bomb.

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  1. Early modern English also bumbard, from Middle English bumbarde, bombarde (in sense 4), from Old French bombarde, a cannon, a musical instrument, French bombarde (= Spanish Portuguese Italian bombarda, a cannon, Italian bombardo, a musical instrument), from Middle Latin bombarda, orig. an engine for throwing large stones, prob. (with suffix -arda, English -ard) from Latin bombus, a loud noise, in Middle Latin a fireball, a bomb: see bomb, n.
  2. from French bombarder, batter with a bombard or cannon, from bombarde, later English bombard, a cannon: see bombard, n. The relation to bomb is thus only indirect.
 

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