bombard
verb
• attack (a place or person) continuously with bombs, shells, or other missiles.
• "the city was bombarded by federal forces"
Similar:
shell,
torpedo,
pound,
blitz,
strafe,
pepper,
fire at/on,
bomb,
assail,
attack,
assault,
raid,
batter,
blast,
pelt,
cannonade,
fusillade,
bombard
noun
• a cannon of the earliest type, which fired a stone ball or large shot.
Origin:
late Middle English (as a noun denoting an early form of cannon, also a shawm) from Old French bombarde, probably based on Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’ (see bomb). The verb (late 16th century) is from French bombarder .
