let loose sth
If you let loose something such as bullets or bombs, you release a lot of them all together:
The allies let loose an intensive artillery bombardment over the border.
to suddenly make a sound or speak in an uncontrolled way:
He turned around and let loose a torrent of abuse.
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Detonation & bombardment
- air raid
- airstrike
- blanket bombing
- blitz
- blitz
- detonator
- direct hit
- dive-bomb
- firebomb
- first strike
- go off
- mine
- saturation bombing
- shoot
- shoot sth down
- shooting
- strafe
- strike
- strike home idiom
- torpedo
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