Definitions for bombing
bomb·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bombing, bombardmentnoun

   an attack by dropping bombs

2. bombingnoun

   the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists

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1. bombingnoun

   The action of dropping bombs from the air.

2. bombingnoun

   The action of placing and detonating bombs.

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1. bombing

   Bombing is the action or strategy of aggressively attacking a particular area, typically in a war zone, using explosives, bombs, or other destructive weapons, often delivered by aircraft or artillery. It can also refer to any incident in which explosives are maliciously used to cause harm, damage, or disruption. The term can also be used figuratively to describe a disastrous failure or poor performance.

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Sabotage
   • Terrorism

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bombing' in Nouns Frequency: #2888

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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1. mobbing

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bombing in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bombing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of bombing in a Sentence

1. Van Haften:

   I was about to cross to Syria the day before the Americans through Saudi and UAE, started bombing in Syria from their ships, i was gonna be in the very city they bombed. But I didn't make it. Hopefully soon though.

2. Raquel Ayora:

   Bombing hospitals is a violation of international humanitarian law.

3. Abu Alaa al-Haurani:

   The army is making progress with heavy Russian aerial bombing. The raids are not stopping we have had over 40 raids in the last 24 hours alone.

4. San Clemente:

   Further, they must have GPS-guided weapons to achieve any hope of accuracy, the defender may also employ GPS jamming and other electronic defensive measures to mitigate the accuracy of enemy air attack.This does not, of course, preclude the attacker from bombing with less than desired discrimination.

5. Charles Krauthammer:

   Obama gave the terror bombing 51 seconds of his speech today in Havana. I thought the whole story of his presidency and its foreign policy was seen in the split screen, on one side, you had the video footage of the attack in Belgium. This is the real world. And on the other side was Obama, in the fantasy world he inhabits, where Cuba is of some geopolitical significance in his mind.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bombing
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bombing
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bombing