BOMBARDED Definition & Meaning

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bombarded

[ bom-bahr-did ]

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adjective

attacked or battered with artillery fire or bombs:
The novel vividly describes a tangle of cloth, broken dishes, shards of metal, and mud—all that remained of the bombarded village.
vigorously and repeatedly assailed or addressed, as with questions, demands, messages, etc.:
The main challenge for marketers is not only to reach but to genuinely engage the already bombarded consumer.
Physics. subjected to a stream of high-energy particles or radiation:
On directing alpha rays at the sample, the scientist observed that the bombarded beryllium emitted a subatomic particle having mass but no charge.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of bombard.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of bombarded¹

First recorded in 1705–15; bombard + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; bombard + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

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Withdrawn and caustic, Janice is a raw lump of unresponsiveness bombarded by those determined to “fix” her.

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According to his friends, he was bombarded by very right-wing politicians and journalists who "planted ideas in his mind."

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Indians bombarded Grok with everything – cricket gossip, political rants, Bollywood drama – and the bot took it all on, unapologetically and with some style.

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Mrs Thom says she was "bombarded with images of obese girls in tights" after buying from Snag when she was pregnant.

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Democratic attorneys general and their political allies have already bombarded the Trump administration with a megaton of lawsuits, several of which have successfully halted Musk and his co-president’s flagrant overreach.

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