bomb
verb/bɒm/
/bɑːm/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they bomb | /bɒm/ /bɑːm/ |
| he / she / it bombs | /bɒmz/ /bɑːmz/ |
| past simple bombed | /bɒmd/ /bɑːmd/ |
| past participle bombed | /bɒmd/ /bɑːmd/ |
| -ing form bombing | /ˈbɒmɪŋ/ /ˈbɑːmɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] bomb something/somebody to attack something/somebody by leaving a bomb in a place or by dropping bombs from a plane
- Warplanes bombed targets in and around the capital.
- They have deliberately bombed civilians.
- The city was heavily bombed in the war.
Extra Examples- The group had planned to bomb several foreign embassies.
- Fighter jets bombed the road to the airport.
- Terrorists bombed several army barracks.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- heavily
- accidentally
- mistakenly
- …
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. (British English, informal) to move very fast, especially in a vehicle, in a particular direction
- They were bombing down the road at about 80 miles an hour.
- [transitive, intransitive] bomb (something) (North American English, informal) to fail a test or an exam very badly
- The exam was impossible! I definitely bombed it.
- [intransitive] (informal) (of a play, show, etc.) to fail very badly
- His latest musical bombed and lost thousands of dollars.
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin.
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