Word Finder - bombing

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To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.

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To fail dismally.

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To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.

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To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

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To cover an area in many graffiti tags.

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To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.

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To make oneself drunk.

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(especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed.

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I was bombing down the road on my motorbike.

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The action of dropping bombs from the air.

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The action of placing and detonating bombs.

The bombing of the town of Randolph stopped an hour before dawn.

Saddam Hussein could have been removed from power without bombing Iraqi civilians surely?

At noon, the big open-air rock concert against the bombing begins in the heart of the city.

Irish Government Regrets Bombing of Iraq The government of Ireland has joined the international opposition to the Anglo-US aggression against Iraq.

This was the last heavy air raid on Britain after eight months of bombing.

Cluster bombs were used by NATO forces during the bombing campaign.

The reason for the bombing was the humanitarian catastrophe brought about by the bombing in the first place.

This was the only bombing operation flown, as the squadron was then allotted to Special Duties.

These obsolescent biplanes performed admirably, transporting troops and supplies around the area and bombing rebel villages with great effect.

The US is already bombing eastern Afghanistan in an effort to prevent a buildup of opposition forces there.

Russian President Vladimir Putin blames terrorists for the bombing, and vows to punish the culprits.

He is also prepared to use deceit to carry out this bombing.

Pages about related topics Some photos I took of a World War II bombing decoy near Kingston upon Hull.

More recently, people had witnessed the devastation caused by the bombing of cities during the Spanish Civil War.

The Independent ' s editorialist welcomed the bombing as a thrilling personal triumph.

Moreover, bombing or invasion is more likely in the long-term to increase than to defeat fanaticism cloaked in religion.

The speed of their arrival suggests they had foreknowledge of the bombing.

Both cases involved IRA attacks on pubs frequented by British soldiers at the height of the bombing campaign.

In 20 minutes of intense bombing, the city became an inferno.

He said the bombing raids were neither legally or morally legitimate.

He said it lasted one hour, and that the suspected mastermind of the bombing, was charged in absentia.

One of these bombing missions was carried out on 26 April 1915 by Second Lieutenant Rhodes-Moorhouse.

So it is a shock when the two men euphorically accept a suicide bombing mission in Tel Aviv.

She also presented the open-ended coverage for ITV News on the night the US started their bombing offensive in Kabul in Afghanistan.

Despite the bombing that has just heralded the onset of war, Szpilman is reluctant to leave his music.

Strategic bombing did not oust the Iraqis from Kuwait or the Serbs from Kosovo.

In July 1940 the Squadron started bombing raids on the Channel ports and anti-submarine patrols and continued night attacks during the winter.

In spite of gunfire and bombing we found native traders on cycles offering us tinned pineapple and cigarettes.

This meeting was also prior to the bombing of the Cubana airliner on October 6, 1976.

The central problem is that these cartoons depicted the prophet inviting people to terrorism and suicide bombing.

His first rocket launching base - the Blockhaus north of Saint-Omer - had been crippled by allied bombing raids.

The first bombing raid against Tokyo occurred on November 24 th.

The bombing of the Chinese Embassy was a deeply regrettable mistake.

Meanwhile, on January 25, dissident republican Colm Murphy was jailed for 14 years for conspiracy to commit the bombing.

The Future of the Competition Scheduled from now on for May, 2006 saw the event revert back to a bombing competition.

He made his way through the bombing, to a deep underground shelter in the basement of the Herbert Art Gallery.

He then rushed, again single-handed, an enemy bombing post.

In all over 3,000 missions were carried out including 21 night bombing sorties.

A typical training sortie would involve a four hour flight cross-country, involving simulated radar bombing runs against selected targets.

The attempt to morally justify suicide bombing seems especially specious.

These cover a range of activities, such as hijacking, hostage taking, bombing, and terrorism financing.

The occupiers have proved unable to achieve even the reconstruction to the level achieved by the Ba'athist regime under sanctions and episodic bombing.

They were central to RAF bombing of the ' no-fly ' zones over Iraq and will be used in the current bombing campaign.

U.S. warplanes enforcing the no-fly zone in Iraq, Ali insisted, were bombing such plants " daily - daily!

His first rocket launching base - the Blockhaus north of Saint-Omer - had been crippled by Allied bombing raids.

Because of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Laos was subjected to saturation bombing by aerial raids launched from Thailand and from within Laos.

Despite numerous bombing and strafing runs by German aircraft, they all arrived safely back in Ramsgate about 12 hours after they departed.

One group of US planes struck 60 miles south of Hanoi today while bombing and strafing guerrilla positions.

The survey was given both before and after the London subway bombing in July, but showed little difference in results.

There were several miles of conduit with the wartime bombing damaging much.