bombard

verb
🔊/bɒmˈbɑːd/
🔊/bɑːmˈbɑːrd/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they bombard
🔊/bɒmˈbɑːd/
🔊/bɑːmˈbɑːrd/
he / she / it bombards
🔊/bɒmˈbɑːdz/
🔊/bɑːmˈbɑːrdz/
past simple bombarded
🔊/bɒmˈbɑːdɪd/
🔊/bɑːmˈbɑːrdɪd/
past participle bombarded
🔊/bɒmˈbɑːdɪd/
🔊/bɑːmˈbɑːrdɪd/
-ing form bombarding
🔊/bɒmˈbɑːdɪŋ/
🔊/bɑːmˈbɑːrdɪŋ/
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  1. bombard somebody/something (with something) to attack a place by firing large guns at it or dropping bombs on it continuously轰炸;轰击
    • Madrid was heavily bombarded for several months.马德里遭到了数月的猛烈轰炸。
    Topics War and conflictc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • heavily
    See full entry
  2. bombard somebody/something (with something) to attack somebody with a lot of questions, criticisms, etc. or by giving them too much information大量提问;大肆抨击;提供过多信息
    • We have been bombarded with letters of complaint.我们接二连三收到了大批的投诉信件。🔊🔊
    • We are bombarded daily with propaganda about what we should eat.我们每天都收到海量宣传,告诉我们应该吃什么。
    Extra Examples
    • We're all constantly bombarded with television ads.我们都时常处在电视广告的狂轰滥炸之下。
    • The interviewer bombarded her with intimate questions.采访者连珠炮似地向她提出了许多涉及个人隐私的问题。
    • The local newspaper has been bombarded with letters from angry residents.当地报纸被愤怒的居民来信轰炸。
    • The media bombard us continually with images of how we should look.媒体不断用我们应有的形象轰炸我们。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • constantly
    • continually
    preposition
    • with
    See full entry
  3. Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun denoting an early form of cannon, also a shawm) from Old French bombarde, probably based on Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin. The verb (late 16th cent.) is from French bombarder.