- 1carpet-bomb something to drop a large number of bombs onto every part of an area
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- 2carpet-bomb somebody (business) to send an advertisement to a very large number of people, especially by e-mail They carpet-bombed the public with commercials for their product.
carpet-bomb
verbVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they carpet-bomb he / she / it carpet-bombs past simple carpet-bombed -ing form carpet-bombing
noun [uncountable]See carpet-bomb in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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