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bombardment

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bom=bard=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

bombardmentn. [F. bombardement.].
     An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

bombardment

air raid, alpha decay, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, beta decay, blitz, blitzkrieg, breeding, broadside, bullet, burst, cannonade, chain reaction, cleavage, disintegration series, dissociation, drumfire, exchange reaction, fission, fission reaction, fusillade, gamma decay, hail, ionization, lightning attack, lightning war, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, photodisintegration, proton gun, proton reaction, reversible reaction, salvo, shower, splitting the atom, stimulation, strafe, strafing, target, thermonuclear reaction, volley

ROGET THESAURUS

bombardment

Attack

N attack, assault, assault and battery, onset, onslaught, charge, aggression, offense, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, outbreak, estrapade, ruade, coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray, run at, run against, dead set at, storm, storming, boarding, escalade, siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade, fire, volley, platoon fire, file fire, fusillade, sharpshooting, broadside, raking fire, cross fire, volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer, cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust, coupe de bec, kick, punch, battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade, devastation, eboulement, assailant, aggressor, invader, base of operations, point of attack, echelon, attacking, aggressive, offensive, obsidional, up in arms, on the offensive, Int, up and at them!, the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death, their fatal hands no second stroke intend, thirst for glory quells the love of life.


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