bombard
A medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
(obsolete) A bassoon-like medieval instrument.
(obsolete) A large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
(poetic, rare) A bombardment.
(music) A bombardon.
To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
(figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
(figuratively) To continuously send or direct (at someone)
If we were, say, to respond to all charitable appeals that bombard us through the media, this would exact a heavy cost in distracting us from what we are most competent to do, and likely only make us the tools of particular interest groups or of peculiar views of the relative importance of particular needs.
(physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
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