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单词 air raid
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Definition of air raid in English:

air raid

noun
  • An attack in which bombs are dropped from aircraft on to a ground target.

    the town was destroyed in the air raid
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The original was destroyed in a wartime air raid, but a replica was created in 1954.
    • He had worked as a civil engineer's clerk for British Rail, and was an air raid patrol warden in Haxby during the Second World War.
    • Mr Webster, a retired surveyor, was seriously injured during an air raid on his army headquarters in Yarmouth in 1943.
    • A written record of the event was destroyed in the air raid.
    • Sara has a mostly miserable time at a succession of schools, and Feige is killed in the last air raid of the war.
    • She grabbed my arm and told me how her house had been hit by a US bomb during an air raid.
    • The car was taken back to Berlin and was destroyed during an Allied air raid later in the war.
    • I was five years old when the war began and I remember the blitz, when we spent so much time in the air raid shelters.
    • New York saw damage that looked like a wartime air raid.
    • The railway station was badly bombed during the worst air raid on York in April 1942.
    • So the solution of using bombs from the air, an air raid, is not possible in this kind of fighting.
    • Suddenly, the lights fizzle out, and all that can be heard are the bombings of an air raid outside.
    • Leon's father, Noel, was only three years old when Spalding Avenue, where they lived, was struck during an air raid.
    • Remember that most of the injuries in an air raid are caused not by direct hits by bombs, but by flying fragments of debris or bits of shells.
    • In 1937 his work was declared degenerate by the Nazis and in 1944 his Berlin studio was destroyed in an air raid.
    • The air force launched a massive air raid with high explosive bombs on the shipyard.
    • The British mission with the Partisans proved powerless to restrain them and a British officer sent in to mediate was killed in an air raid.
    • He was displeased to watch an air raid occur on his cannons, destroying one of them.
    • The enemy bombers were shot down and a long siren wail told residents the air raid was over and that emergency rescue work must begin at once.
    • This is because of the danger of their being bombed in an air raid.
    Synonyms
    shelling, strafing, pounding, pelting, blitz, strafe, bombing
 
 

Definition of air raid in US English:

air raid

nounˈe(ə)r ˌrādˈɛ(ə)r ˌreɪd
  • An attack in which bombs are dropped from aircraft on to a ground target.

    the town was destroyed in the air raid
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So the solution of using bombs from the air, an air raid, is not possible in this kind of fighting.
    • The air force launched a massive air raid with high explosive bombs on the shipyard.
    • The British mission with the Partisans proved powerless to restrain them and a British officer sent in to mediate was killed in an air raid.
    • Remember that most of the injuries in an air raid are caused not by direct hits by bombs, but by flying fragments of debris or bits of shells.
    • He was displeased to watch an air raid occur on his cannons, destroying one of them.
    • In 1937 his work was declared degenerate by the Nazis and in 1944 his Berlin studio was destroyed in an air raid.
    • Suddenly, the lights fizzle out, and all that can be heard are the bombings of an air raid outside.
    • Sara has a mostly miserable time at a succession of schools, and Feige is killed in the last air raid of the war.
    • Mr Webster, a retired surveyor, was seriously injured during an air raid on his army headquarters in Yarmouth in 1943.
    • A written record of the event was destroyed in the air raid.
    • She grabbed my arm and told me how her house had been hit by a US bomb during an air raid.
    • New York saw damage that looked like a wartime air raid.
    • The car was taken back to Berlin and was destroyed during an Allied air raid later in the war.
    • The railway station was badly bombed during the worst air raid on York in April 1942.
    • I was five years old when the war began and I remember the blitz, when we spent so much time in the air raid shelters.
    • The enemy bombers were shot down and a long siren wail told residents the air raid was over and that emergency rescue work must begin at once.
    • Leon's father, Noel, was only three years old when Spalding Avenue, where they lived, was struck during an air raid.
    • The original was destroyed in a wartime air raid, but a replica was created in 1954.
    • This is because of the danger of their being bombed in an air raid.
    • He had worked as a civil engineer's clerk for British Rail, and was an air raid patrol warden in Haxby during the Second World War.
    Synonyms
    shelling, strafing, pounding, pelting, blitz, strafe, bombing
 
 
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