BOMBING

bombing, bombardment

(noun) an attack by dropping bombs

bombing

(noun) the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

bombing (plural bombings)

The action of dropping bombs from the air.

The action of placing and detonating bombs.

Verb

bombing

present participle of bomb

Anagrams

• mobbing

Source: Wiktionary

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BOMB

Bomb, n. Etym: [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. .]

1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.] A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.

2. (Mil.)

Definition: A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

3. A bomb ketch. Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion.

– Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel.

– Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing.

– Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. "I noticed volcanic bombs." Darwin.

Bomb, v. t.

Definition: To bombard. [Obs.] Prior.

Bomb, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Boom.]

Definition: To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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