bombards
Hits with everything
Bombards is the verb form of bombard, meaning to attack continuously with artillery, missiles, or other projectiles: Enemy forces bombarded the city for three days.
More commonly, bombard describes overwhelming someone with questions, requests, information, or stimuli: Reporters bombarded the candidate with questions.
The noun bombard is an early type of cannon, now mainly historical.
barrage
Sustained, overwhelming attack
onslaught · siege · salvo · volley · strike · raid · offensive · cannonade · pummels · pelts
cannon
Large mounted gun
- mortarGrinding bowl or binder
- howitzerShort-barreled artillery piece
- catapultSiege engine for launching
trebuchet · culverin · siege engine · ordnance · projectiles · munitions · roundshot · grapeshot · canister · ballista
- antique firearmsmusket, matchlock, muzzleloader, harquebus, Brown Bess
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, condemns, denounces, censures
- coastal artillerycoastal batteries, gun emplacements, heavy ordnance, Fort Sumter, Fort McHenry
- naval ordnancenaval guns, torpedoes, naval artillery, naval mines, depth charges
- aerial bombardmentAttack by aircraft-dropped explosives
- naval bombardmentWarships attacking coastal targets
- artillery bombardmentSustained heavy weapons fire
bombard, bombardment, bombarded, bombarding, bombardier, bombardments, bombardiers