What's the difference between bludgeon and bombard?

Bludgeon


Definition:

  • (n.) A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet, while the source material isn't quite as sanguinary as its Japanese cousin, there are certainly enough stabbings, bludgeonings and deaths to mean that making a loyal adaptation that the core fanbase could actually go and watch was something of a challenge.
  • (2) Rivett was found bludgeoned to death with a lead pipe at the countess’s home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street on the evening of 7 November 1974.
  • (3) What’s troubling isn’t the premise that a straight man might be stricken by rape-anxiety before going to jail, but the crass and bludgeoning way it’s handled,” he said.
  • (4) He can't quite bludgeon his way through, Taiwo booting it behind for a corner.
  • (5) While raising concerns about each other's possession of the disease, they have worked together to bludgeon the other members of the World Health Organisation, which have pressed them to destroy their stocks.
  • (6) For a moment I think some jealous caveman has bludgeoned me with a club but, from my prone position, I can see that there is a nasty rock protrusion at head height.
  • (7) He was a worldly man of great personal charm who loved friendship and conversation, enjoyed intellectual disagreement and sought to persuade not to bludgeon.
  • (8) "Poisoning, shooting or bludgeoning [greys] to death in a sack is irrational, inhumane and doomed to fail," said the charity, who thinks the public has been fed the "emotive anthropomorphism" of Beatrix Potter's Squirrel Nutkin too often by conservationists seeking to bring back reds.
  • (9) In January, the Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was bludgeoned to death after he was pictured on the front of the Ugandan tabloid Rolling Stone alongside the headline Hang Them.
  • (10) He yells to his wife: "Get away, hide," but you bludgeon him unconscious and then you go for her.
  • (11) Photograph: Guardian The news that the billionaire businessman might head to the land of moules-frites generated headlines, insults, a lawsuit and divided France roughly down right-left lines: those who saw Arnault as a symbol of the "selfish rich" and those who saw him as a standard bearer for the tax-bludgeoned entrepreneur trying to create jobs and wealth.
  • (12) I am arresting you, Humphrey, for this violent bludgeoning as you are the only person with a hat but no specs."
  • (13) I feel bludgeoned by a past I only imagine I missed.
  • (14) And while their shows are exceptionally loud – earplugs are given out ("it is not cool to damage your senses") – this is no heavy-metal bludgeoning.
  • (15) In Shujai’iya, the area of Gaza City that saw some of the worst fighting as Israeli tanks and bulldozers bludgeoned through the neighbourhood, the destruction was a vision of hell.
  • (16) McCluskey’s one-time flatmate, the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson, had been hoping for a smoother transition, but McCluskey called the wave of resignations by Labour frontbenchers “an attempted political lynching, designed to bully and bludgeon Jeremy Corbyn, this deeply decent and kind man, out of the job he was elected to do”.
  • (17) Our rulers wield a moral club with which they wish to bludgeon us into accepting that they are on our side.
  • (18) Rooney’s jubilation manifested itself in the leaping somersault that we first saw from him when he was bludgeoning defences at Euro 2004.
  • (19) A year before Shepard’s murder, a 15-year-old named Daphne Sulk was found dead outside Laramie – nude, bludgeoned, and stabbed 17 times.
  • (20) In the Guardian's first review of the film , Xan Brooks described it as "a bruising, gruelling experience" that "bludgeons the body and tenderises the soul.

Bombard


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
  • (n.) A bombardment.
  • (n.) A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
  • (n.) Padded breeches.
  • (n.) See Bombardo.
  • (v. t.) To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most important characteristics of various interfaces, such as direct liquid introduction, Magic, continuous flow fast atom bombardment and thermospray, are discussed.
  • (2) A method is described for measuring the stable isotopic enrichment of taurine in cat urine samples by high resolution fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry, after 15N labelled taurine was given to cats for the purpose of investigating taurine metabolism.
  • (3) The variability in response is attributed to interaction between nearby, on-going synaptic bombardment and the stimulus, implying that surface cathodal stimuli directly activate corticospinal neurons at the spike trigger zone (presumably the initial segment).
  • (4) Analysis of these polar lipids by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry established that they were F2-isoprostane-containing species of phosphatidylcholine.
  • (5) 5-10%), according to analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB-MS).
  • (6) Its structure was determined by permethylation and fast atom bombardment-mass spectometry analyses.
  • (7) Their chemical structures were determined by gas-liquid chromatography, methylation analysis, enzymatic hydrolysis, negative-ion fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry, and proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
  • (8) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
  • (9) Meanwhile, rebel-held eastern Aleppo has been overrun by pro-regime forces led by Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian-led Shia militias supported by Russian and Syrian regime aerial bombardment.
  • (10) In this method, the Staphylococcus aureus protease V8 digest of the CNBr-treated B subunit of the classical biotype toxin was examined directly by fast-atom-bombardment mass spectrometry without separation of individual peptides.
  • (11) High-energy radiation bombardment of intact frozen telencephalon resulted in a biphasic inactivation curve for [3H]AMPA binding.
  • (12) After a week of the most intensive bombardment of the five-year war, forces loyal to the Syrian leader are in control of most of the countryside immediately to the north.
  • (13) The number of civilian casualties from Russian bombardment is far higher than the number caused by American and French airstrikes,” said Wael Aleji, spokesman for the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
  • (14) spectroscopy, fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry (f.a.b.-m.s.
  • (15) France immediately extended its bombardment of the Islamists with air strikes in central Mali.
  • (16) The beheading of British aid worker David Haines on 13 September and the start of US-led bombardment of Isis positions in Syria on 23 September were followed by large anti- then pro-Isis reactions.
  • (17) US and coalition aircraft have been bombarding the territory in and around Kobani for days, launching airstrikes on dozens of locations and taking out militants, weapons and other targets.
  • (18) These results indicate the usefulness of low-energy collision-activated dissociation tandem mass spectrometry in the daughter and parent scan modes for the analysis of ganglioside structure, in combination with fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry and high-energy collision-activated dissociation mass spectrometry.
  • (19) Fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry has already been used for the identification of mutations in abnormal human hemoglobin chains.
  • (20) The positive and negative ion fast atom bombardment spectra of myo-inositol hexakis(disodium phosphate) and myo-inositol hexakis(dihydrogen phosphate) are described.