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bomb Noun

— A bomb is a weapon that explodes. On August 6, a U.S. B-29 dropped a 9,000-pound atomic bomb on Hiroshima. One U.S. soldier and two Iraqi children were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in central Baghdad. — If something, often a movie or a concert, was a bomb, it was very unsuccessful. The first computer was a bomb, but IBM improved it and the new machine sold very well.

bomb Verb

— If you bomb a place, you drop or put one or more bombs there. This woman's mother and son were killed when American planes bombed the village. — If you bomb somewhere, you go there at high speed. They walked up the mountain with their bikes and then bombed down as fast as they could go. — If you bomb a test, course, etc., you get a very low grade on it. — If something, often a movie or a concert, bombs, it is very unsuccessful. The show bombed in London as well as flopping on Broadway.

bomb

— noun an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions — verb throw bombs at or attack with bombs The Americans bombed Dresden — noun (= bomb calorimeter) strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion — noun (= turkey, dud) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual the first experiment was a real turkey the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned — verb (= fail) fail to get a passing grade She studied hard but failed nevertheless Did I fail the test?

Synonyms bomb synonyms

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bombard shell bombshell explosive device explosive dud turkey flunk fail bomb calorimeter flush it flop explode a bomb dynamite drop a bomb crump blow up zap volcanic bombs volcanic bomb vase the bomb strafe spring shoot sex bomb riding hat riding cap rebound popcorn pepper pelt pellet minnie mine leap jar guncotton grenade gas tank flask firework firecracker fillip fall flat failed creative work explosives explosive material explosion detonator

Topics bomb topics

What do people use bomb to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal movement
Person Sense, perceive See

Something used to see
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building

Conjugation bomb conjugation

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bomb · verb

Examples bomb examples

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Simple sentences

They told me it was a bomb.
Tom has planted a bomb on the plane.
A time bomb went off in the airport killing thirteen people.
Science produced the atomic bomb.
There are a few nuclear bomb shelters in the city.
This bomb can kill many people.
This kind of bomb is a serious menace to mankind.
The atomic bomb is the offspring of 20th century physics.
The atomic bomb destroyed the entire city of Hiroshima.
The atomic bomb is a grave threat to mankind.
Throw a tear-gas bomb at him.
We heard the bomb go off.
The campaign seems to be going like a bomb.
Sadako's friends wanted to build a monument to her and all children who were killed by the atomic bomb.
When the bomb exploded, I happened to be there.
An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.
A big bomb fell, and a great many people lost their lives.
They know how to make an atomic bomb.
They dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
They defused the bomb before it could blow up.
This bomb can kill a lot of people.

Movie subtitles

I'll use the Chaos Bomb.
I'm gonna drop a bomb.
Bomb.
A bomb!
I even had a bomb in my toothbrush the other day.
Take these bomb cases and be careful with them.
I'm the guy that knocked out your pop with a gas bomb and then. carried him off to New York in chains.
If a plane drop a bomb, this is the work of an enemy.
Erupts a bomb!
A cage with a bomb inside!
Open and I will skip by air! -Maybe you have a bomb.
It has a bomb. will blow.
A-bomb?
The old man has a bomb.
And the bomb. hadn't been a bomb!
For the bomb-thrower, your majesty.
Where is she, the little bomb-thrower?
She asked me what information I had, so I dropped the bomb.
And my aeroplanes will bomb your artillery like that!
Here's a little feature. An accident about a tear bomb.
Yeah, tear bomb, tear bomb.
The tear bomb went off unexpectedly in the hands of the bombing squad.
Your liver must look like a bomb hit it.
But it'll be like carrying a bomb around.
It's got no bomb rack, no bomb release, nothing.
Bomb. - Oh, God.
Doctor Bomb to see the Baron.
Doctor Bomb lends his name to this concoction of ours.
Bomb is a fool.
Monsieur de Fairville, and Dr Bomb, sir.
Doctor Bomb.. be seated.
Dr Bomb, you're drunk.
Doctor Bomb. State your case.
Your visit Dr Bomb is not entirely unexpected.
Are you listening, Dr Bomb?
Doctor Bomb, I'm impervious to flattery.
Dr Bomb.

News and current affairs

In 1977, when I served in President Jimmy Carter's State Department, I was sent to India to dissuade that country's leaders from developing a nuclear bomb.
But revelations about the nuclear weapons smuggling network organized by A. Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's bomb, confirm the danger I predicted back then.
Even today, the Bomb divides the world into two classes: the few states have it, and the many that do not.
It threatens to bomb Iran.
Just this year, a 10-year-old ban on the research and development of nuclear weapons below five kilotons--the bomb at Hiroshima was 15 kilotons--was eliminated.
Likewise, US administrations have remained wedded to the Bomb.
One, once headed by Dr. Khan, is responsible for producing bomb-grade uranium gas that, when converted to metal, provides the crucial fuel for a nuclear explosion.
Thus the mystery: how could Dr. Khan - who had no need to possess weapons design information - have handed over detailed bomb design documents to Libya?
These dealt with technical means for enabling centrifuge rotors to spin close to the speed of sound without disintegrating, -essential for making bomb-grade uranium.
For the moment, the efforts of some Pakistani bomb-makers to peddle nuclear secrets appear to have been stymied.
As a result, Pakistan's bomb-makers have seriously jeopardized the safety of their country.
It is possible that America would bomb Pakistan first - perhaps with nuclear weapons - and look later for justifications later.
It is time to give up the fantasy of an Islamic Bomb, and it is past the time to rein in Pakistan's rogue bomb-makers.
The energy derived from splitting uranium and plutonium atoms was originally used for the ultimate weapon, the atomic bomb.
His body was found in a hotel toilet in the city of Kaduna with the remains of a parcel bomb after an explosion that no one heard.
The implication, encouraged by the regime, was that Kaltho was a recruit of mine who blew himself up while preparing his next bomb in a campaign of terror aimed at Sanni Abacha's dictatorship.
We need something on the scale of the Manhattan Project (which created the atomic bomb), or the Apollo Program (which put a man on the moon).
Solutions such as these are not explored, however, because they are not within obviously immediate reach, as the atomic bomb and the lunar landing were.
The stakes have never been higher - and not only because of the very real and dangerous geopolitical consequences of an Iranian bomb.
But his audacity confronted a world in which the Bomb remained at the heart of many countries' deterrence strategies.
Britain's High Commissioner in Bangladesh was wounded in a similar bomb attack this May.
To guarantee that Iran never acquires a nuclear bomb, the US would need to maintain military pressure on Iran for several years.
Most new revelations about Pakistan's nuclear scandal focus on the clandestine supply of uranium enrichment technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya by the celebrated bomb-maker Dr. A. Q. Khan.
But the documents that Libya turned over to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and subsequently to the US, show that Pakistan supplied more than just equipment for making bomb fuel.

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