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单词 bombardment
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Definition of bombardment in English:

bombardment

noun bɒmˈbɑːdm(ə)ntbɑmˈbɑrdmənt
  • 1A continuous attack with bombs, shells, or other missiles.

    an aerial bombardment will precede the attack
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters.
    • On the other front, Germans frequently mistook Soviet mortar barrages for aerial bombardments.
    • The men suffered continuous shell and mortar bombardment followed by ferocious counter-attacks.
    • The men kill time collecting the small parachutes from the shells in between attacks and bombardments.
    • It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place.
    Synonyms
    shelling, strafing, pounding, pelting, blitz, air raid, strafe, bombing
    barrage, strike, attack, assault, onslaught
    archaic cannonade, fusillade
    1. 1.1 A continuous flow of questions, criticisms, or information.
      a steady bombardment of emails and phone calls
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I strongly feel that your campaign stirs up unnecessary resentment towards a service that has received a constant bombardment of criticism.
      • Companies can use the service too, but will that mean a bombardment of spam?
      • Less than a month to the elections, and ahead lies a bombardment of mind-numbing party political messages to rival the deadly effusions of a Death Star.
      • The show's overstuffed visual style seems perfectly suited to today's MTV-era of image bombardment.
      • Stark warnings and a constant bombardment of information on the fragile nature of Earth's environment surround us on a weekly basis.
      • But one thing we know is the brain craves simplicity especially in the face of today's media bombardment.
      • Even grief, with all its emotional gravity, is nevertheless subject to being lost in the bombardment of consecutive experiences.
      • Local stories, accents, and images are drowned out by a multi-channel bombardment of glossy programming, bearing little resemblance to the Caribbean experience.
      • Today's report says the bombardment of children with messages of what is cool pits children against each other and their parents.
      • Some see restaurants as a last refuge, the only place left to escape bombardment by warnings about what not to eat.
      • But then slowly, inexorably, the great occasion descended into torpor - deliberately induced by a classic Brownite bombardment of figures, forecasts and the odd indisputable fact.
      • Web users are getting fed up with the bombardment of irrelevant messages every time they log on.
      • This process involves a sort of sensory bombardment.
      • So if massive ad bombardments no longer are the way to build brands, what do these authors recommend?
      • No one escaped his bombardment of phone calls, faxes and e-mails.
      • The mood in the American population was markedly subdued as well, outside of the pockets of pro-war zealots and despite (or perhaps because of) the media bombardment.
      • But consumer tolerance of marketing bombardment is wearing thin.
 
 

Definition of bombardment in US English:

bombardment

nounbämˈbärdməntbɑmˈbɑrdmənt
  • 1A continuous attack with bombs, shells, or other missiles.

    an aerial bombardment will precede the attack
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The men suffered continuous shell and mortar bombardment followed by ferocious counter-attacks.
    • It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place.
    • On the other front, Germans frequently mistook Soviet mortar barrages for aerial bombardments.
    • The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters.
    • The men kill time collecting the small parachutes from the shells in between attacks and bombardments.
    Synonyms
    shelling, strafing, pounding, pelting, blitz, air raid, strafe, bombing
    1. 1.1 A continuous flow of questions, criticisms, or information.
      a steady bombardment of emails and phone calls
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Web users are getting fed up with the bombardment of irrelevant messages every time they log on.
      • The show's overstuffed visual style seems perfectly suited to today's MTV-era of image bombardment.
      • Local stories, accents, and images are drowned out by a multi-channel bombardment of glossy programming, bearing little resemblance to the Caribbean experience.
      • Stark warnings and a constant bombardment of information on the fragile nature of Earth's environment surround us on a weekly basis.
      • Less than a month to the elections, and ahead lies a bombardment of mind-numbing party political messages to rival the deadly effusions of a Death Star.
      • So if massive ad bombardments no longer are the way to build brands, what do these authors recommend?
      • This process involves a sort of sensory bombardment.
      • But consumer tolerance of marketing bombardment is wearing thin.
      • But one thing we know is the brain craves simplicity especially in the face of today's media bombardment.
      • The mood in the American population was markedly subdued as well, outside of the pockets of pro-war zealots and despite (or perhaps because of) the media bombardment.
      • Some see restaurants as a last refuge, the only place left to escape bombardment by warnings about what not to eat.
      • But then slowly, inexorably, the great occasion descended into torpor - deliberately induced by a classic Brownite bombardment of figures, forecasts and the odd indisputable fact.
      • I strongly feel that your campaign stirs up unnecessary resentment towards a service that has received a constant bombardment of criticism.
      • Today's report says the bombardment of children with messages of what is cool pits children against each other and their parents.
      • No one escaped his bombardment of phone calls, faxes and e-mails.
      • Companies can use the service too, but will that mean a bombardment of spam?
      • Even grief, with all its emotional gravity, is nevertheless subject to being lost in the bombardment of consecutive experiences.
 
 
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