# blitz
## English
### Etymology

Clipping of blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blɪts/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪts

### Noun

blitz (countable and uncountable, plural blitzes)
* (countable) A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the Blitz.
* (countable) A swift and overwhelming attack or effort.
    We embarked on a publicity blitz, putting posters and flyers all around town.
** 2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian‎:Ultimately, though, Liverpool had inflicted a grievous result in the first leg when they scored three times in a 19-minute blitz and, importantly, did not concede an away goal.
** 2021 March 25, Koichi Nakano, “The Olympics Are On! But Why?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:He [Yoshihide Suga] seems to be counting on a media blitz with feel-good effects around the Games to improve his sagging popularity.
** 2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times‎:Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules.
* (countable, American football) A play in which additional defenders beyond the defensive linemen rush the passer.
* (uncountable, chess) Short for blitz chess.
** 2013 June 24, Mark Samuelian, “Speed Chess Changed My Brain”, in The Atlantic‎:What I had played was chess. Specially, I knocked out some 2,000 games of speed (or "blitz") chess in the two months leading up to the tournament. In fact, I played so much that I'm currently in the top half-percent of more than 1.3 million of blitz players at an online chess competition site.
** 2015, Mark Dvoretsky, For Friends and Colleagues, volume 2 (Reflections on My Profession):In order to avoid misunderstanding, I must note that I object to the attempts to displace normal chess with fast play, not rapid or blitz in general. I love them both, and, if I were to choose which to play, classic or rapid, I would choose rapid.
* (cooking) The act of blending or puréeing food using a blender or processor.
* (fishing) An occurrence in which large numbers of fish, typically striped bass or bluefish, feed on a school of baitfish, typically one in which the occurrence can be seen from the surface.

#### Derived terms

* bioblitz
* Blitz
* blitzable
* blitzar
* blitzbuggy
* blitz chess
* blitzscale
* blitz torte
* blitz truck
* zero blitz

#### Translations
### Verb

blitz (third-person singular simple present blitzes, present participle blitzing, simple past and past participle blitzed)
* (transitive) To attack quickly or suddenly, as by an air raid or similar action.
    Synonym: charge
** 1990 February 4, Chrystos, “Headaches And Ruminations”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 9:So the question remains — what to do with ignorance, which I must presume is deliberate, as in this media-blitzed era it is not possible to be truly ignorant after age 12.
* (intransitive, American football) To perform a blitz.
    The Washington High defense almost always blitzes on third down.
* (transitive, cooking) To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender.
    Synonym: zhoosh
    To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in the food processor before adding the parsley and breadcrumbs.
* (transitive, informal) To do something quickly or in one session.
    Synonyms: hurry, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush

#### Derived terms

* blitz out

### Anagrams

* Biltz

## Danish
### Etymology

German Blitz

### Noun

blitz
* (photography) flash, camera flash

#### Declension
## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blitz, shortened from English blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈblit͡s/$^*$
* Rhymes: -its

### Noun

blitz m (invariable)
* blitz

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blitz, shortened from English blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈblits/

### Noun

blitz f (invariable)
* random checkpoint (a hastily set-up point along a road where the police stop random drivers)

## Spanish
### Noun

blitz m (plural blitz)
* blitz