Dictionary entry

Bombard (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.