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Definition of barrel bomb in English: barrel bombnoun A crude bomb consisting of an oil drum or similar container filled with explosives, typically dropped from an aircraft. he estimated that dozens of barrel bombs had been dropped on the province in the last nine days Example sentencesExamples - The attackers used "barrel bombs" - metal tubs filled with TNT, nails and other shreds of metal - which, when dropped from helicopters, have a devastating blast range.
- A total of 11 barrel bombs were assembled and detonated leaving behind an enormous hole in the ground.
- The primary weapon is the Antonov bomber: retrofitted Russian cargo planes that are notoriously inaccurate and carry huge loads of shrapnel-packed barrel bombs.
- He accused the government of committing "yet another war crime" by spraying civilian areas with barrel bombs.
- An activist said fighting had ceased, but that the air force had continued to drop barrel bombs on the town.
- This shows the aftermath of what activists call a barrel bomb having been dropped on a residential street in that district.
- The rebels rolled the barrel bombs through sewers until they were underneath the main guard post at the base.
- The dastardly arsenal ranges from missiles, flares and flamethrowers to mines, barrel bombs and chaos-causing oil slicks.
- Last week there were daily bombardments, including an attack by a helicopter that dropped barrel bombs.
verb [with object]Drop a barrel bomb or bombs on. another of the makeshift medical centres was barrel-bombed on June 23rd Example sentencesExamples - We were seeing on television people being barrel-bombed, starved and killed.
- Seven decades of education and monument building in the West did not lift a finger for the dead, gassed and barrel-bombed in their streets.
- Elsewhere the government has kept up its barrel-bombing campaign regardless of whether civilians are present or not.
- An elderly women yelled after her neighborhood was barrel-bombed by government warplanes, "They have destroyed our homes and killed our children."
- These accusations have been appearing for some time on the Internet and have gained strength since repeated barrel-bombing of civilians.
- The water shortage was a combination of Government barrel-bombing of the electricity generating station and the regime's slowness in repairing a breakdown at the pumping station.
- Guerrilla groups competed for popularity among urban populations being barrel-bombed by the regime.
- Unfortunately, the barrel-bombing only stopped for less than 48 hours.
- He was killed by the government's barrel-bombing of the city, as were several children he had just vaccinated.
Definition of barrel bomb in US English: barrel bombnoun A crude bomb consisting of an oil drum or similar container filled with explosives, typically dropped from an aircraft. he estimated that dozens of barrel bombs had been dropped on the province in the last nine days Example sentencesExamples - The attackers used "barrel bombs" - metal tubs filled with TNT, nails and other shreds of metal - which, when dropped from helicopters, have a devastating blast range.
- An activist said fighting had ceased, but that the air force had continued to drop barrel bombs on the town.
- Last week there were daily bombardments, including an attack by a helicopter that dropped barrel bombs.
- The rebels rolled the barrel bombs through sewers until they were underneath the main guard post at the base.
- A total of 11 barrel bombs were assembled and detonated leaving behind an enormous hole in the ground.
- This shows the aftermath of what activists call a barrel bomb having been dropped on a residential street in that district.
- He accused the government of committing "yet another war crime" by spraying civilian areas with barrel bombs.
- The dastardly arsenal ranges from missiles, flares and flamethrowers to mines, barrel bombs and chaos-causing oil slicks.
- The primary weapon is the Antonov bomber: retrofitted Russian cargo planes that are notoriously inaccurate and carry huge loads of shrapnel-packed barrel bombs.
verb [with object]Drop a barrel bomb or bombs on. another of the makeshift medical centers was barrel-bombed on June 23rd Example sentencesExamples - Elsewhere the government has kept up its barrel-bombing campaign regardless of whether civilians are present or not.
- He was killed by the government's barrel-bombing of the city, as were several children he had just vaccinated.
- Seven decades of education and monument building in the West did not lift a finger for the dead, gassed and barrel-bombed in their streets.
- Guerrilla groups competed for popularity among urban populations being barrel-bombed by the regime.
- An elderly women yelled after her neighborhood was barrel-bombed by government warplanes, "They have destroyed our homes and killed our children."
- These accusations have been appearing for some time on the Internet and have gained strength since repeated barrel-bombing of civilians.
- We were seeing on television people being barrel-bombed, starved and killed.
- The water shortage was a combination of Government barrel-bombing of the electricity generating station and the regime's slowness in repairing a breakdown at the pumping station.
- Unfortunately, the barrel-bombing only stopped for less than 48 hours.
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