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    [Noun]  | "bom*bard" | \ ˈbäm-ˌbärd \


    1: a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English bombard, bumbard, borrowed from Middle French bombarde, probably from an onomatopoeic base bomb- + -arde {see: |-ard|-ard} {mat|bomb:1|bomb:1};

      * Note : As with bomba, bombe, etc. (see: note at {bomb:1|bomb:1}), the origin and diffusion of bombarda, bombarde, etc., remain incompletely elucidated. French bombarde, in reference to an engine of war, appears in the Vrayes chroniques of Jean le Bel, a history of the Hundred Years War begun in 1357 (see: Dictionnaire du Moyen Français, online) and in the accounts of the Valenciennes city clerk Nicole de Dury from 1363 (see: H. Caffiaux, Nicole de Dury, maître clerc de la ville de Valenciennes 1361-1373, Valenciennes, 1866, p. 103). Italian bombarda may be dependent on the French word, given that the earliest use of the word is in reference to artillery used at the battle of Crécy in 1346 (in the final book of the Nuova Cronica of Giovanni Villani, who died in 1348; manuscripts containing the final book are significantly later). The 1311 date given for bombarda in Trésor de la langue française, Cortelazzo and Zolli's Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana, and a number of earlier sources from which they draw (as the Enciclopedia Italiana) is incorrect; the text in question, the Polystorio or Polyhistoria by Niccolò da Ferrara (not Bartolomeo da Ferrara), alludes to events of 1311 but was written sometime after 1367, when the chronicle ends, at the court of Niccolò II d'Este, marquess of Ferrara from 1361 (cf. Richard Tristano, "History 'Without Scruple': The Enlightenment Confronts the Middle Ages in Renaissance Ferrara," Medievalia et Humanistica, new series, no. 38 [2012], p. 85). Spanish lombarda, attested about 1400, is clearly a folk-etymologizing of bombarda (pace Coromines' etymology in Diccionario crítico-etimológico castellano e hispánico, which does not take account of the earlier French forms).;

    [Verb]  | "bom*bard" | \ bäm-ˈbärd \


    1: to attack especially with artillery or bombers

    2: to assail vigorously or persistently (as with questions)

    3: to subject to the impact of rapidly moving particles (such as electrons)


    Origin: 1686 ;

     Earlier, "to fire a large cannon," borrowed from Middle French bombarder, verbal derivative of bombarde {see: |bombard:1|bombard:1};

    [Verb]  | "bombard" 


    1: to use bombs or artillery against;


      * e.g., " ... the Allies bombarded Germany for a great many months during World War II "



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    2: to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once;


      * e.g., " ... reporters bombarded the company spokesman with sharp questions "



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     [ "Bombard" ]

    1: To push your way through.

      * e.g.,  ... They bombarded through the front doors. 

     [ "BOMBARDATION" ]

    1: INUNDATED AND OVERLOADED WITH CRAP EMAILS AND WORK

      * e.g.,  ... OMG, IV JUST HAD A BOMBARDATION OF EMAILS 

     [ "bombardment" ]

    1: A great variation of dodgeball.

      * e.g.,  ... My elementary school gym teacher invented this game, and we played it every friday, alwayse lookin foreward to the sweet sweet bombardment, untill 6th grade when it was banned because some dumbass kid well and hurt his arm. 


     [ "bombardment" ]

    2: this game is played in a gym with one team on each side. Teams cosist of ten-ish people and there are 3 types "balls" used: A dodgeball, rubber air filled or foam, a "foamie" wich is a foam frizbee, and a foam, nerf style football. The object of the game is to get a football or foamie into the other teams basket without crossing the halfcourt line. The round is either won by throwing a football or foamie into the other teams basket or by getting all of the othor team out by throwing dodgeballs at them. Usualy 2 typed of dodgeballs are used, 1 or 2 small black ones and a large normal sized one. normal dodgeball rules apply for getting out. if you are hit with a ball, your out, if you catch a thrown ball, football, or foamie, the thrower is out, if you hit an opponent, anyone he has gotten out is back in, and lastly if you cross the gyms halfcourt line, youre out. the game can be really energetic, but it can be very dangerous if you are the last person left in, in wich case you can either get all the remaining opponents out, score a point with a football or foamie, or get bombarded by 5 dodgeballs, thus the name.

     [ "Bombarding" ]

    1: Emails that continuously flood the inbox, often sent by a neurotic woman.

      * e.g.,  ... Geez, that crazy girl keeps bombarding me with emails. It makes it hard for me to be "hard at work". 

     [ "Bombard" ]

    1: a English slang term to have sexual intercourse

      * e.g.,  ... "dude, I'm going go bombard stephanie later" 

     [ "bombarded" ]

    1: A word meaning that when you and some girl had sex in the past and you tell you're buddies or other people that you fucked the girl's asshole.

      * e.g.,  ... Friend: Hey man what happened with that girl arlene 

     [ "fecal bombardment" ]

    1: The deliberate spreading of false information for the purposes of swaying public opinion or reinforcing existing beliefs. Typically, this term is used in a political or corporate context. In short, it means to "spread shit around".

      * e.g.,  ... The candidate engaged in a campaign of fecal bombardment in order to gain a leg up on his opponent. After the scandal involving the board of directors, the new CEO began a policy of fecal bombardment in order to keep investors happy. 

     [ "The Bombardment Society" ]

    1: The most attractive branch of the Moped Army, based in Cincinnati Ohio. TBS was founded in 2002 by 4 radical dudes and now it stands as the 2nd oldest branch of the Moped Army. Each year they host a moped rally called Bomb Prom and hundreds of moped riders from across the country come to Cincinnati to party and ride mopeds.

      * e.g.,  ... The Bombardment Society is so attractive. Wish I was as attractive as they are. 

     [ "Orbital Bombardment" ]

    1: The act of commencing a high yeild military strike on a planet's surface using a satallite or spacecraft as a weapons platform.

      * e.g.,  ... Enemy forces are on the move... commence orbital bombardment on these coordinets. 


     [ "Orbital Bombardment" ]

    2: Attacks of this manner can be noted for the ability to deliver increasingly large amounts of firepower to a surface target anywhere in the hemisphere with accuracy rivaling that of a smart-bomb due to all targets being in the Line of Sight.


     [ "Orbital Bombardment" ]

    3: These attacks are also nearly impossible to defend against, as solid projectiles must fight gravity to engage attacking ships and orbiting vessels can manuver better than ground targets. Thus dramaticly reducing the risk of the attack...


     [ "Orbital Bombardment" ]

    4: Single precision attacks are often reffered to as an orbital strike while more powerful salvo and barrage styled attacks tend to be used for leveling a metropolis or larger.


     [ "Orbital Bombardment" ]

    5: Uses of an Orbital Bombarment include Ground-Force Suppression, Instalation Neutralization, and for those of us with no reguard for civilian life... Genocide.

     [ "AERIAL BOMBARDMENT" ]

    1: RELEASING SILENT GAS ON AN AIRLINER

      * e.g.,  ... HON I APOLOGIZE FOR MY BOUT OF AERIAL BOMBARDMENT BUT THOSE BEER AND PICKLED EGGS WERE AWESOME 

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