| 单词 | obliteration bombing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasobliteration bombing obliteration bombing n. heavy bombing intended to destroy a target completely; cf. saturation bombing n. at saturation n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of area bombardment1918 straddling1919 pattern-bombing1933 terror-bombing1933 dive-bombing1935 firebombing1935 blind-bombing1940 blitzing1940 coventrating1940 nuisance bombing1940 scatter bombing1940 coventration1942 carpet bombing1943 obliteration bombing1943 skip-bombing1943 shuttle bombing1944 atom bombing1945 atomic bombing1945 clobbering1948 loft-bombing1956 1943 Spectator 24 Sept. 289/2 (heading) ‘Obliteration’ bombing. 1943 Spectator 8 Oct. 337/2 The question of ‘obliteration bombing’..raises more difficulties than Mr. Johnstone envisages. 1945 L. Mumford Plan of London County (Rebuilding Britain, No. 12) iii. 15 This failure would still be serious..even if obliteration bombing had not been practised. 1964 R. M. Palter Ethics 208 Germany opposed the use of obliteration bombing, perhaps out of mere self-interest. 1991 Internat. Security 15 155 The conventional obliteration bombing of Japan's cities by LeMay's B-29s, initiated in March 1945. < as lemmas |
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