英语词汇“coventrate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	coventrate
释义	coventratev. /ˈkɒvəntreɪt/ Etymology: < Coventr(y (see Coventry n.) + -ate suffix³ after German coventrieren. (temporary.) To bomb intensively; to devastate sections of (a city) by concentrated bombing, such as that inflicted on Coventry, Warwickshire, in November 1940. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > drop (bombs) > bomb > heavily plaster1914 saturate1918 coventrate1940 paste1942 carpet-bomb1944 saturation-bomb1950 1940 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 2 Oct.–26 Nov. 221 German bombers made prolonged mass attacks..on Coventry... And..they invented the verb ‘to coventrate’ to describe the indiscriminate mass murder of civilians. 1944 H. Hawton Night Bombing viii. 126 It was the Germans themselves who had coined so gloatingly the verb ‘to coventrate’. Derivatives ˈcoventrating n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of area bombardment1918 straddling1919 pattern-bombing1933 terror-bombing1933 dive-bombing1935 firebombing1935 blind-bombing1940 blitzing1940 coventrating1940 nuisance bombing1940 scatter bombing1940 coventration1942 carpet bombing1943 obliteration bombing1943 skip-bombing1943 shuttle bombing1944 atom bombing1945 atomic bombing1945 clobbering1948 loft-bombing1956 1940 New Statesman 21 Dec. 647 The fact was that ‘Coventrating’ meant that the nerves and sinews and muscles of local government were wrenched and lacerated. covenˈtration n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of area bombardment1918 straddling1919 pattern-bombing1933 terror-bombing1933 dive-bombing1935 firebombing1935 blind-bombing1940 blitzing1940 coventrating1940 nuisance bombing1940 scatter bombing1940 coventration1942 carpet bombing1943 obliteration bombing1943 skip-bombing1943 shuttle bombing1944 atom bombing1945 atomic bombing1945 clobbering1948 loft-bombing1956 1942 L. E. O. Charlton Britain at War 22 Possibility of another ‘coventration’ of a manufacturing centre. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < v.1940
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