单词 | saturation bombing |
释义 | > as lemmassaturation bombing saturation bombing n. intensive and exhaustive bombing of a target area; also figurative and in extended use (cf. Compounds 1b). ΚΠ 1942 Neosho (Missouri) Daily Democrat 27 June 1/4 The city [sc. Bremen] is reported still burning more than 24 hours after the British saturation bombing. 1956 Times of India 4 Oct. 8/1 The press, the radio, the television and the cinema are the many media used for such ‘saturation bombing’. 1975 R. H. Rimmer Premar Exper. (1976) i. 19 The days when we believed we could change things—like the draft, or the saturation bombing of Vietnam, or the Pentagon running the universities. 2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 Aug. d1/4 A kind of saturation bombing of brand names and product messages. 2018 China Daily (Nexis) 6 Mar. The US's saturation bombing of the DPRK during the Korean War. < as lemmas |
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