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Bomb Dropped Noun Bɒm Bɑːm Off/Explodes Hundreds City

Word3 bomb
WordType (noun)
Phonetic /bɒm/ /bɑːm/
Example
  • a bomb goes off/explodes
  • hundreds of bombs were dropped on the city.
  • to plant/detonate a bomb
  • a suicide bomb
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bomb

(noun)/bɒm/ /bɑːm/
  1. a weapon designed to explode at a particular time or when it is dropped or thrown
    • SEE ALSO atomic bomb
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/atomic-bomb
    • a bomb goes off/explodes
    • Hundreds of bombs were dropped on the city.
    • to plant/detonate a bomb
    • a suicide bomb
    • a roadside bomb (= one that is designed to blow up vehicles)
    • a bomb attack/blast
    • extensive bomb damage

    Extra Examples

    • A terrorist bomb ripped through the town's packed shopping centre.
    • Eighty people died when bombs rained down on the city's crowded streets.
    • Enemy planes dropped bombs along the railway line.
    • He used a clock to make a home-made bomb.
    • India started to build a nuclear bomb.
    • Police suspect terrorists planted the bomb.
    • The bombs were strapped to their chests.
    • The land was scarred with bomb craters.
    • The plane had been adapted to carry bombs.
    • The suspect was apprehended for planting a fake bomb in a bus terminal.
    • Their truck was hit by a stray bomb.
    • a practice flight with dummy bombs
    • There was no warning of the bomb blast which ripped through the packed station.
    • On a pleasure trip from Umbria to Milan, a terrorist bomb goes off in Emily 's train carriage.
  2. nuclear weapons (atomic or hydrogen bombs)
    • countries that have the bomb
  3. a lot of money
    • That dress must have cost a bomb!
    • Some company directors make an absolute bomb.
  4. a complete failure
    • The musical was a complete bomb on Broadway.
  5. a long forward throw of the ball
  6. a container in which a liquid such as paint or insect poison is kept under pressure and released as a spray or as foam
    • a bug bomb (= used for killing insects)
  7. to be very good; to be the best
    • Check out the new website. It's the bomb!
  8. to be very successful
    • Our performance went down a bomb.
    • The party was really going (like) a bomb.
    • Her new novel is going like a bomb (= selling well).
  9. to go very fast
  10. Word Origin

    • late 17th cent.: from French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin.
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