Synonyms for bombed

Grammar : Adj

Spell : bomd

Phonetic Transcription : bɒmd

Top 10 synonyms for bombed

Other synonyms for the word bombed

Définition of bombed

Origin : 1580s, from French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus "a deep, hollow noise; a buzzing or booming sound," from Greek bombos "deep and hollow sound," echoic. Originally of mortar shells, etc.; modern sense of "explosive device placed by hand or dropped from airplane" is 1909. Meaning "old car" is from 1953. Meaning "success" is from 1954 (late 1990s slang the bomb "the best" is probably a fresh formation); opposite sense of "a failure" is from 1963. The bomb "atomic bomb" is from 1945.

adj drunk

Example sentences :

I take it you were one of the boys who bombed the fighter fields.
Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery

The enemy, on his part, sniped at and bombed our patrols at night.
Extract from : « The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry » by G. K. Rose

If she tries to go into A-A drive, she is to be bombed—no matter who is aboard.
Extract from : « The Highest Treason » by Randall Garrett

It was simultaneously torpedoed, mined, scuttled, and bombed.
Extract from : « Free Air » by Sinclair Lewis

But the hospital had not been bombed, which was the great thing.
Extract from : « Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line » by Clarence Young

They were in the bombed trenches and had had a very hard time from our shell fire.
Extract from : « The Red Watch » by J. A. Currie

The word was that we were to go to Vlamertinghe, where the Zeppelins had bombed us in our huts.
Extract from : « The Escape of a Princess Pat » by George Pearson

It was at the village of Zudkerque, where Fritz had bombed and blown up a dump in 1916.
Extract from : « 500 of the Best Cockney War Stories » by Various

It was tragical to be bombed, but how much more so to see the bomber die.
Extract from : « The Challenge of the Dead » by Stephen Graham

Then the two Casualty Clearing Stations on the railway were bombed.
Extract from : « A Company of Tanks » by W. H. L. Watson

Antonyms for bombed

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