Other forms: bombardments
A bombardment is a sustained attack with shells or with questions. An artillery bombardment, a bombardment of questions, under bombardment.
The military sense means shelling from a distance rather than an assault, and the figurative one keeps the sense of coming without pause. In physics it names the firing of particles at a target.
1nounbombardmentA sustained attack with shells or with questions.
“The city suffered weeks of heavy bombardment during the siege.”
bombardment is an attack.
Latin
bombus — buzzing; booming
Middle French
bombarde — a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument
Middle English
bombard
English
bombard
English, today
bombardment
From bombard + -ment. bombard comes from Middle English bombard, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”). The modern pronunciation is from modern French bombarde.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA