bomb
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.
Inflected forms:
form: bombs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bombing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bombed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bombed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more bomb
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bomb
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: 2000, Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research, Volumes 32-33, page 65,
15 May: US jets bombed air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally bombing civilian targets. (AP)
Italy had bombed cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.
Essendon was bombed in the early hours of 3 September 1916; a few houses and part of the church were destroyed, and two sisters killed.
gloss: To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
often
transitive
examples: School days have been missed or cut short many times to accommodate soccer travel through the years, but this return felt different. Photos posted on his social media documenting the experience were seen by classmates, many of whom bombed him with questions about his future in the sport.
gloss: To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
pos: verb
tags: informal
gloss: To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
pos: verb
tags: informal
gloss: To move at high speed.
pos: verb
tags: especially
informal
examples: I was bombing down the road on my motorbike.
gloss: To make oneself drunk.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
slang
examples: The calendar was selling Moctezuma beer, so I had one of them in her honor while Murray bombed himself with the mezcal.
TED: The champagne you ordered, sir.
MAN: No time for this. Leave it on ice.
WIFE: But I want some now...
MAN: There'll be plenty for you at the party, baby, you can bomb yourself all you want at the party.
gloss: To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.
gloss: To fail dismally.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: I totally bombed that exam.
The nondiscrimination measures bombed at the polls, losing 18 percent to 82 percent. One gay activist in the city told GCN, "We got whupped."
So Hall quit the job, turned in the company car and went to Chicago, where as a stand-up comic he bombed several times before he was discovered by Nancy Wilson, who took him on the road — where he bombed again before a room of Republicans—and then to Los Angeles.
2000, Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview, in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, Comic Book Artist Collection, page 12,
Carmen: […] Then it bombed and it bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I′m trying everything I can but it′s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.
She was the reason why he bombed the interview. He just couldn′t seem to get her out of his mind.
gloss: To crash.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: When things weren't going Alison's way at work — some editor wanted something changed or her computer bombed again — she'd cuss and yell at whoever happened to be in the way.
gloss: To make a smelly mess in (a toilet).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: What over-charged piece of melancholie / Is this, breakes in betweene my wishes thus, / With bombing sighs?
gloss: Synonym of parachute (“wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them”).
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: Great, awesome.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!
Derived words: bomber
bomb off
bomb out
dive-bomb
divebomb
unbombed
Zoombomb
Zoombombing
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: bombardoj
lang: Arabic
word: قَنْبَلَ
roman: qanbala
lang: Arabic
word: فرقع
roman: farʔaʕ
lang: Arabic
word: فجر
roman: faggar
lang: Armenian
word: ռմբակոծել
roman: ṙmbakocel
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bombalamaq
lang: Belarusian
word: бамбі́ць
roman: bambícʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: разбамбі́ць
roman: razbambícʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: бамбардава́ць
roman: bambardavácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: бамбардзі́раваць
roman: bambardzíravacʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: абстрэ́льваць
roman: abstrélʹvacʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: абстраля́ць
roman: abstraljácʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: бомбарди́рам
roman: bombardíram
lang: Catalan
word: bombardejar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 轟炸 /轰炸
roman: hōngzhà
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 炮擊 /炮击
roman: pàojī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 轟擊 /轰击
roman: hōngjī
lang: Czech
word: bombardovat
lang: Czech
word: vybombardovat
lang: Danish
word: bombe
lang: Dutch
word: bombarderen
lang: Esperanto
word: bombi
lang: Esperanto
word: bombardi
lang: Estonian
word: pommitama
lang: Finnish
word: pommittaa
lang: French
word: bombarder
lang: French
word: pilonner
lang: Galician
word: bombardear
lang: Galician
word: bombear
lang: Georgian
word: ყუმბარების დაშენა
roman: q̇umbarebis dašena
lang: Georgian
word: დაბომბვა
roman: dabombva
lang: German
word: bombardieren
lang: Greek
word: βομβαρδίζω
roman: vomvardízo
lang: Hebrew
word: פּוֹצֵץ
roman: potséts
lang: Hebrew
word: הפציץ
roman: hiftsíts
lang: Hindi
word: बमबारी करना
roman: bambārī karnā
lang: Hungarian
word: bombáz
lang: Hungarian
word: ágyúz
lang: Ido
word: bombardar
lang: Indonesian
word: membomi
lang: Ingrian
word: bombittaa
lang: Interlingua
word: bombardar
lang: Interlingua
word: bombar
lang: Irish
word: buamáil
lang: Italian
word: bombardare
lang: Japanese
word: 爆撃する
roman: bakugeki suru
lang: Japanese
word: 砲撃する
roman: hōgeki suru
lang: Korean
word: 폭격(爆擊)하다
roman: pokgyeokhada
lang: Korean
word: 포격(砲擊)하다
roman: pogyeokhada
lang: Latin
word: urbem tormentis verberare
lang: Latin
word: bombardare
lang: Latvian
word: bombardēt
lang: Lithuanian
word: bombarduoti
lang: Macedonian
word: бомбарди́ра
roman: bombardíra
lang: Marshallese
word: baam̧
lang: Marshallese
word: bo̧kutan̄
lang: Norman
word: bomber
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bombe
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: бомбардовац
roman: bombardovac
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: забомбардовац
roman: zabombardovac
lang: Persian
word: بمباران کردن
roman: bombârân kardan
lang: Polish
word: bombardować
lang: Polish
word: zbombardować
lang: Polish
word: ostrzeliwać
lang: Polish
word: ostrzelać
lang: Portuguese
word: bombardear
lang: Portuguese
word: bombear
lang: Romanian
word: a bombarda
lang: Russian
word: бомби́ть
roman: bombítʹ
lang: Russian
word: разбомби́ть
roman: razbombítʹ
lang: Russian
word: бомбардирова́ть
roman: bombardirovátʹ
lang: Russian
word: обстре́ливать
roman: obstrélivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: обстреля́ть
roman: obstreljátʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бомбарди́рати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бомбардовати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bombardírati
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bombardovati
lang: Slovak
word: bombardovať
lang: Slovak
word: vybombardovať
lang: Slovene
word: bombardirati
lang: Spanish
word: bombardear
lang: Spanish
word: bombear
lang: Swedish
word: bombardera
lang: Swedish
word: bomba
lang: Thai
word: ระเบิด
roman: rá-bə̀ət
lang: Turkish
word: bombalamak
lang: Ukrainian
word: бомбардува́ти
roman: bombarduváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: бомби́ти
roman: bombýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: розбомби́ти
roman: rozbombýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: обстрі́лювати
roman: obstríljuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: обстріля́ти
roman: obstriljáty
lang: Vietnamese
word: ném bom
lang: Volapük
word: boumön
lang: Yakut
word: бомбалаа
roman: bombalaa
lang: Yoruba
word: ju bọ́ǹbù
lang: Yoruba
word: ju àdó olóró