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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bombardment \Bom*bard"ment\, n. [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] Bombardo



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bombardment
       n 1: the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance
            to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or
            alpha rays)
       2: the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than
          hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front
          of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours
          without pausing" [syn: {barrage}, {barrage fire}, {battery},
           {shelling}]
       3: an attack by dropping bombs [syn: {bombing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

















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