Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bombarding"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bombard \Bom*bard"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bombarded}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Bombarding}.]
To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to
throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
Next, she means to bombard Naples. --Burke.
His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe. --Wood.
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