Bombarded
[bɔm'bɑ:did]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Bombard
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Examples
- A British subject was killed in a street brawl, and a Japanese town was bombarded by the British (1863). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He debarked his troops and apparently made every preparation to attack the enemy while the navy bombarded the main forts at Haines' Bluff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I stayed there and was bombarded with old gentlemen for an hour, perhaps; and all I got out of any of them was Oh, my! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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