单词 | bombard |
释义 | bombard —bombarder, n. —bombardment, n. v. /bom bahrd", beuhm-/; n. /bom"bahrd/, v.t. 1. to attack or batter with artillery fire. 2. to attack with bombs. 3. to assail vigorously: to bombard the speaker with questions. 4. Physics. to direct high energy particles or radiations against: to bombard a nucleus. n. 5. the earliest kind of cannon, originally throwing stone balls. 6. Naut. See bomb ketch. 7. an English leather tankard of the 18th century and earlier, similar to but larger than a blackjack. 8. Obs. a leather jug. [1400-50; late ME (n.) < ML bombarda stone-throwing engine (L bomb(us) booming noise (see BOMB) + -arda -ARD)] Syn. 3. beset, harass, hound, besiege. |
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