bombing
轰炸,投弹,炸毁,爆炸
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- : Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- : any similar missile or explosive device used as a weapon, to disperse crowds, etc.: a time bomb;a smoke bomb.
- : Also called vol·can·ic bomb [vol-kan-ik bom] /vɒlˈkæn ɪk ˈbɒm/ .Geology. a rough spherical or ellipsoidal mass of lava, ejected from a volcano and hardened while falling.
- : Meteorology. a weather bomb.
- : aerosol bomb.
- : Football. a long forward pass, especially one to a teammate who scores a touchdown.
- : Slang. an absolute failure; fiasco: The play was a bomb and closed after two performances.
- : Computers. a catastrophic program failure or system failure.
- : the bomb, Slang. something or someone that is excellent or very impressive: Her boyfriend is the bomb!
- : Chiefly British Slang. an overwhelming success: The novel is selling like a bomb.
- : Jazz. a sudden, unexpected accent or rhythmic figure played by a drummer during a performance.
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Its macros are pretty well-balanced, so it feels less like a sugar or protein bomb and more like a meal.
The solution is that someone has to drop a clarity bomb so that you can reset and get around this downward spiral of weirdness.
While in the service, Bechtol handled 1,000-pound precision-guided bombs.
People feared that if the Soviets could shoot probes around the Earth and Moon, they could easily drop a nuclear bomb onto Washington or Los Angeles.
The FLQ, which had carried out a string of bombings, executed its most notorious attack the next year, detonating a bomb at the Montreal Stock Exchange that injured dozens.
Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.
But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.
Even a relatively small 250-pound bomb could kill or injure friendly troops who are within 650 feet of the explosion.
The reason pilots would choose to use guns over a bomb or a missile is simple.
More like bomb-shells, military mines, torpedoes, and nitroglycerine trains.
The trench mortars—bomb guns they call them—will be ready in Japan in two and a half months' time.
That boy shows old Rachels blood, soliloquized the mistress of Wavertree Hall; he would not run if there were a bomb under him!
Villeroi's reply was to commence the bombardment at once, and forthwith bomb-shells and red-hot shot came pouring on the town.