= area bombing n.; an instance of this.

The bombing of a target from a number of aircraft according to a predetermined pattern intended to produce the maximum effect. Also figurative.

intensive and indiscriminate bombing designed to frighten a country into surrender.

The action of attacking or destroying something with firebombs; an instance of this.

Aeronautics. Applied to flying and aerial bombing executed by means of instruments without direct observation. Also as adv. Hence blind-bombing, bl…

bombing aimed at inconveniencing or disrupting the enemy.

bombing carried out haphazardly over an area.

Military. The dropping of a large concentration of bombs to cause extensive and widespread damage to an area. Cf. carpet-bomb, v.

heavy bombing intended to destroy a target completely; cf. saturation bombing n. at saturation, n. compounds 3.

(see quot. 1973); also attributive.

bombing carried out by planes taking off from one base and landing at another.

The action or an act of attacking by dropping an atom bomb.

= atom bombing, n.

(see quot. 1956).