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单词 bomb
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bombnoun

uk/bɒm/us/bɑːm/

bomb noun (WEAPON)

B1 [ C ] a weapon that explodes and is used to kill or hurt people or to damage buildings:

A 100-pound bomb exploded/went off today, injuring three people.
The terrorists had planted a bomb near the police station.
During World War II, the British dropped a huge number of bombs on Dresden.
the bomb

one or more atom bombs:

The US was the first country to have the bomb.

More examples

  • The bomb killed four soldiers and three civilians.
  • A bomb exploded at one of the capital's busiest railway stations this morning.
  • Police are hunting the terrorists who planted the bomb.
  • A nuclear bomb could wipe the whole country off the map.
  • A remote control device was used to detonate the bomb.

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Bombs & missiles

  • atom bomb
  • ballistic
  • ballistic missile
  • ballistics
  • bomblet
  • firebomb
  • frag bomb
  • fragmentation bomb
  • grenade
  • guided missile
  • minefield
  • missile
  • Molotov cocktail
  • mushroom cloud
  • napalm
  • silo
  • smart bomb
  • smoke bomb
  • surface-to-air missile
  • time bomb

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bomb noun (FAILURE)

[ S ] US informal something that has failed:

The play was a real bomb.

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Failures

  • a dog's breakfast idiom
  • another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
  • breakdown
  • car crash
  • cock-up
  • dead duck
  • foul-up
  • free fall
  • hash
  • lemon
  • loser
  • lost cause
  • lulu
  • mess-up
  • parody
  • slim pickings
  • slush pile
  • track record
  • train wreck
  • turkey

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bomb noun (MONEY)

a bomb UK informal

a lot of money:

That coat must have cost a bomb.

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Large amounts of money

  • a king's ransom idiom
  • a small fortune idiom
  • arm
  • big bucks
  • bundle
  • cost, charge, etc. the earth idiom
  • earth
  • fortune
  • handsome
  • king
  • megabucks
  • not to be sneezed at idiom
  • pile
  • pot
  • small
  • sneeze
  • tidy
  • treasure
  • treasure trove
  • wealth

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Idiom(s)

be the bomb
go (like/down) a bomb
go like a bomb

bombverb

uk/bɒm/us/bɑːm/

bomb verb (USE WEAPON)

B1 [ T ] to drop bombs on something:

Planes bombed the city every night.

B1 [ T ] to destroy something by exploding a bomb inside it:

This hotel was bombed a few years ago.
The building was completely bombed out (= completely destroyed by a bomb).

More examples

  • Planes bombed the guerrilla positions yesterday in an attempt to flush out snipers from underground tunnels.
  • Fighter planes have successfully bombed the enemy's main armoury.
  • Our city was bombed to smithereens during the war.
  • They thought the country could be bombed into submission.
  • Many important historical documents were destroyed when the library was bombed.

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Detonation & bombardment

  • air raid
  • airstrike
  • blanket bombing
  • blitz
  • blitz
  • detonator
  • direct hit
  • dive-bomb
  • firebomb
  • first strike
  • go off
  • mine
  • saturation bombing
  • shoot
  • shoot sth down
  • shooting
  • strafe
  • strike
  • strike home idiom
  • torpedo

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bomb verb (GO FAST)

[ I + adv/prep ] informal to travel very fast in a vehicle:

He was bombing along on his motorbike.

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On the road: driving & operating road vehicles

  • aquaplaning
  • back sth up
  • boxed in
  • bump start
  • bus driver
  • car seat
  • carve
  • corner
  • dip
  • driver
  • driving
  • foot
  • hold the road idiom
  • manoeuvring
  • motor
  • motorist
  • mph
  • pull away
  • scorch
  • turning circle

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Moving quickly

bomb verb (FAIL)

[ I ] mainly US informal to fail:

Her last book really bombed.

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Failing and doing badly

  • at-risk
  • backbencher
  • balls-up
  • be running on empty idiom
  • beat a dead horse idiom
  • crack
  • crash
  • draw
  • fail
  • fall apart
  • flunk out
  • fray around/at the edges idiom
  • fumble
  • get off on the right/wrong foot idiom
  • give up on sb/sth
  • screw (sth) up
  • sink like a stone idiom 1
  • sink like a stone
  • so much for sth idiom
  • stagnate

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