Synonyms of bombardments

bombardments

noun

plural of bombardment

as in barrages

a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once

the bombardment of so many instructions meant that I missed some of the information

Synonyms & Similar Words

• barrages
• flurries
• volleys
• salvos
• cannonades
• floods
• fusillades
• torrents
• drumbeats
• showers
• hails
• tides
• blitzes
• blitzkriegs
• storms
• drumfires
• inundations
• avalanches
• outbursts
• surges
• streams
• bursts
• rashes
• outpourings
• outflows
• spates
• deluges
• cataclysms
• discharges
• broadsides
• cataracts
• currents
• flood tides
• overflows
• rivers
• excesses
• flushes
• gushes
• surpluses
• earfuls
• gluts
• engulfments
• oversupplies
• surfeits
• overages
• overabundances
• superfluities
• overkills
• overmuch
• superabundances

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• drips
• trickles
• dribbles

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bombardments

The government has been carrying out a counteroffensive since January, with aerial bombardments and ground assaults, despite an official commitment to the peace agreement. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

None of the works address the recent bombardments directly, although the precarious context of ongoing threat, instability and struggle can be felt in almost all of them. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026

The fast-food restaurant in Kyiv’s Lukianivka neighborhood has withstood at least nine bombardments since Russia invaded Ukraine four and a half years ago. — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2026

Long before October 2023, Gaza’s people suffered international sanctions, a humiliating occupation, and periodic Israeli bombardments. — Helen Epstein, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2026

Some, like France's Maginot Line, became border fortresses stretching for miles, while German coastal defenses sat on the cliffs of Normandy, requiring the Allies to take out with sea bombardments and direct infantry assaults. — David Szondy june 23, New Atlas, 23 June 2026

The bombardments have largely occurred in south Lebanon, near the border with Israel, and around Beirut, near the airport. — Gregory Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026

The latest escalation in the conflict follows one of Russia’s heaviest bombardments of the war in May. — Tiago Ventura, Time, 2 June 2026

Russia has been using long-range missiles and drones to damage Ukraine's power grid and hammer cities, and Ukraine has braced for further heavy bombardments. — Arkansas Online, 30 May 2026