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单词 bombers
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bomb

1 of 2

noun

ˈbäm How to pronounce bomb (audio)
1
a
: an explosive device fused to detonate under specified conditions
b
: atomic bomb
also : nuclear weapons in general
usually used with the
2
: a vessel for compressed gases: such as
a
: a pressure vessel for conducting chemical experiments
b
: a container for an aerosol (such as an insecticide) : spray can
3
: a rounded mass of lava exploded from a volcano
4
: a lead-lined container for radioactive material
5
: failure, flop
the play was a bomb
6
British : a large sum of money
7
a
British : a great success : hit
b
slang : one that is striking or extraordinary
used with the
their new album is the bomb
8
a
: a long pass in football
b
: a very long shot (as in basketball)
shooting 3-point bombs
also : home run
9
: something unexpected and unpleasant
often used with drop
dropped a bomb with her resignation

bomb

2 of 2

verb

bombed; bombing; bombs

transitive verb

1
: to attack with or as if with bombs : bombard
The planes successfully bombed their target.
a bombed village
2
a
: to defeat decisively
b
baseball : to score many runs against (a pitcher)
Allen tried a new slider pitch without success and was bombed in Cincinnati. Jack Lang
3
: to hit (a ball, puck, or shot) very hard
bomb a home run
bomb a long drive down the fairway
4
slang : to fail (a test)
I bombed my history exam.

intransitive verb

1
informal : to fall flat : to fail completely
The movie bombed at the box office.
a joke that bombed
2
informal : to move rapidly
a car bombing down the hill
bombing noun
The city was subjected to heavy bombing during the war.
suicide bombings

Synonyms

Noun

  • bummer
  • bust
  • catastrophe
  • clinker
  • clunker
  • debacle
  • débâcle
  • disaster
  • dud
  • failure
  • fiasco
  • fizzle
  • flop
  • frost
  • lemon
  • loser
  • miss
  • shipwreck
  • turkey
  • washout

Verb

  • barrage
  • bombard
See all Synonyms & Antonyms

Example Sentences

Noun A bomb went off downtown. Many bombs were dropped on the city during the war. They hid a bomb in the building. countries that have the bomb Verb The city was heavily bombed during the war. The planes flew 200 miles to bomb their target. The movie bombed at the box office. The play bombed on Broadway. He bombed at his first performance. I completely bombed my math exam. A car was bombing down the highway. teenagers bombing around in a convertible See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The fire was investigated by the city’s arson and bomb squad, the State Police Fire & Explosion Unit, which is part of the state fire marshal’s office, and State Police assigned to the Hampden district attorney’s office, according to the statement. Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022 The Boston police bomb squad responded to the scene. Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2022 The bomb squad cleared the grocery store and nearby apartment complex. Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022 The Sheriff’s Department’s bomb squad also responded. Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022 Then the bomb squad, escorted by police, transferred the device to a quarry in Medole municipality about 30 miles away, where it was destroyed. Reuters, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2022 The buildings were swept by the bomb squad four times and then given the all-clear, according to Jordan Sharp, UT Vice President of Marketing and Communication. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022 The Indiana State Police Department and a local bomb squad investigated a backpack that was left inside a bathroom outside the food court. Staff Report, The Indianapolis Star, 18 July 2022 The Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad was called to the scene, and the object was cleared by about 11:30 p.m., airport officials tweeted. Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2022
Verb
In 1944, Jewish leaders begged the American government to bomb the rail lines leading to Auschwitz; those pleas were rejected. Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022 The players must be rushed to bomb shelters if air-raid sirens sound. Editors, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2022 No fans will be allowed in the 65,000-capacity downtown stadium for the 1 p.m. local time kickoff and the players must be rushed to bomb shelters if air-raid sirens sound. Graham Dunbar, ajc, 22 Aug. 2022 Curtis LeMay, the former Air Force general who urged President Kennedy to bomb Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, was his running mate. Joel Mathis, The Week, 1 Aug. 2022 This may be behind a fiasco this week when two Russian Su-27s attempted to bomb targets on Snake Island and missed not only their targets but the island itself. David Hambling, Forbes, 15 July 2022 That year, five would-be American terrorists were convicted of plotting to bomb Sears Tower. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022 In mid-2014, Fluke-Ekren told a government witness about plans to bomb a U.S. shopping mall or college, according to prosecutors. Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 7 June 2022 More security than looking up to the night sky hoping a plane doesn’t catch sight of your car and bomb you. Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

borrowed from Spanish or Italian bomba or French bombe, all probably in part from an onomatopoeic base bomb- (as in Greek bómbos "booming, humming," Old Norse bumba "drum," Lithuanian bambėti "to mutter, mumble," Albanian bumbullin "it is thundering"), in part back-formation from Medieval Latin bombardus or Middle French bombarde bombard entry 1

Note: The origin and transmission of bomba, bombe, etc., in the sense "explosive device, projectile, etc.," among European languages is not certain. Bomba is attested earliest in Spanish, appearing several times in the second half of the 16th century (canto 18 of La Araucana of Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, the Descripción general de África of Luis del Mármol, the Historia de las cosas … del Gran Reyno de la China of Juan González de Mendoza). Mendoza's book (1585) is the source of an early and aberrant instance of bomb in English: his bombas de fuego is rendered as "bomes of fire" in Robert Parke's translation (The Historie of the Great and Mightie Kingdome of China, London, 1588, p. 65). Bomba is recorded as Italian in Antoine Oudin's Italian-French dictionary (Recherches italiennes et françoises, Paris, 1640), where it is glossed "bombe, ou balon de feu" ("bomb, or ball of fire"), though it is not recorded in an Italian text until 1686 (Paolo Segneri, Il cristiano instruito, Florence, p. 327); Oudin's gloss also apparently constitutes the first record in French. Significantly earlier than any of these is Latin bombus, which occurs twice in the Commentarii, an account of the exploits of the condottiere Jacopo Piccinino in 1452-53 by the Neapolitan humanist Giannantonio de' Pandone, "il Porcellio" (ca. 1405-85); Pandone's bombus appears to be some sort of exploding projectile ("Hic Tibertus Dux bombi fulmine in ulna sauciatur" - "Here Tibertus [the condottiere Tiberto Brandolini] was wounded in the forearm by the flash of a bombus"); the 18th-century lexicographer Du Cange, in Glossarium mediae et infimae Latinitatis, glosses bombus in this passage, alluding to French bombe, as pila incendiaria, "fireball." Spanish bomba in the sense "pump," attested from the early 16th century, is probably an independent formation; cf. pump entry 1.

Verb

derivative of bomb entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

1662, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

1688, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Kids Definition

bomb 1 of 2

noun

ˈbäm How to pronounce bomb (audio)
1
: a hollow case or shell filled with explosive material
2
: a container in which something (as an insecticide) is stored under pressure and from which it is released in a fine spray
3
: something that is a complete failure
The new movie was a bomb.

bomb

2 of 2

verb

bombed; bombing
1
: to attack with bombs
2
: to fail completely
His comedy act bombed.

bombers

noun

plural of bomber
as in warplanes

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