bombingn.
/ˈbɒmɪŋ//ˈbʌmɪŋ/ An attacking with bombs; bombarding; the action or operation of throwing or dropping bombs. Also transferred.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of mines and explosives > [noun] > use of bombs
bombing1691
bomb-throwing1905
suicide bombing1940
clobbering1948
society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs
bomb-dropping1910
bombing1915
1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 195 The bombing of which had cost them a good summ of money and men.
1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 129 The General would leave Bombing, Of Towns in hot Campaigns.
1915 Daily Mail 18 May 6/4 Three Air Raids on Calais. Futile bombing by 3 Zeppelins.
1940 ‘Gun Buster’ Return via Dunkirk ii. xi. 167 The bombing had been mercilessly thorough.
1953 N. Tinbergen Herring Gull's World iv. 31 I watched Hooded Crows picking up the mussels and dropping them on the road... I could not but conclude that they had concentrated their ‘bombing’ on the road.
1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 228 These bombings were reducing Japan's fighting machine to impotence.
1968 P. Lund & H. Ludlam PQ17 vi. 127 During all this time the bombing had continued, hour after hour.
Compounds
C1. Also attributive.
bombing attack n.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid
raid1908
bombing offensive1917
bombing raid1917
bomb-raid1917
bombing attack1942
prang1943
1942 Times Weekly 2 Dec. 6/3 While Stukas were occasionally used for level bombing attacks ‘they did not carry out one proper dive-bombing attack during the entire campaign’.
bombing offensive n.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid
raid1908
bombing offensive1917
bombing raid1917
bomb-raid1917
bombing attack1942
prang1943
1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 171 After a tribute has been paid to the bombing offensives for which the Naval Air Service has always been famous.
bombing party n.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > bombing party
bombing party1915
bombing squad1923
1915 Morning Post 29 May 8/1 A bombing party presents a weird sight... The men carry 5 or 6 grenades each.
bombing plane n.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > bomber
raider1908
bomber1917
night bomber1918
dart1925
bomb-dropper1928
flying boxcar1932
bombing plane1934
bomber aircraft1935
medium bomber1935
dive-bomber1937
heavy1943
nuisance raider1944
shuttle bomber1944
atomic bomber1945
interdictor1965
stealth1979
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Bombing plane.
1936 Discovery Feb. 33/1 The Air Ministry..use them as practice ranges for bombing planes.
bombing raid n.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid
raid1908
bombing offensive1917
bombing raid1917
bomb-raid1917
bombing attack1942
prang1943
1917 Flying 14 Feb. 89/1 In bombing raids..it is necessary for aeroplanes to fly in a fixed formation.
bombing sight n.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > bombs carried by aircraft > bomb sight
bomb sight1917
bombing sight1920
Mickey1944
1920 Flight 12 744/2 An invention of bombing sights for aeroplanes.
1944 Times 20 Apr. 5/7 One factory turned from making fountain pens and propelling pencils to the production of aircraft bombing sights.
bombing squad n.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > bombing party
bombing party1915
bombing squad1923
1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. ii. 125 O'Brien started to train fresh bombing-squads with the Mills bomb.
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bombing run n. = bomb run n. at bomb n. Compounds 2.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > line of flight over target
bombing run1941
bomb run1941
1941 J. A. Hammerton ABC of RAF 23 An aspect of training for night-flying: after a practice ‘bombing run’ with a camera obscura the pupils check up results.
1946 News Chron. 2 Mar. 3/3 Trent completed his bombing run..and dropped his bombs in the target area.
bombing up n. the loading of aircraft with bombs.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > bombs carried by aircraft > loading with bombs
bombing up1932
1932 Flight 10 June 508/1 (caption) Bombing up: Fixing a 550-lb. bomb in its rack.
1939 Times 3 Nov. 8/5 In another hangar the King watched a demonstration of ‘bombing up’. On low trucks bombs were run under the body of the aeroplane and there by mechanical means loaded into the machine.
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