bombing
Explosive aerial strike
Bombing is an attack using explosive devices, whether from aircraft, planted charges, or suicide bombers: The bombing killed dozens of civilians.
To bomb a place is to attack it this way.
In informal speech, bombing means failing spectacularly—a comedian bombs when jokes don't land, a movie bombs at the box office.
Conversely, in British slang, bombing can mean moving very fast: He went bombing down the motorway.
Aircraft-delivered military attack
- raidSudden armed incursion
- sortieArmed raid outward
- missionPurpose-driven task
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
strike · shelling · barrage · blitz · tactical · precision · targeting · munitions
Explosive ignition event
- blastSudden forceful burst
- shockwavePropagating pressure disturbance
- shrapnelScattered explosion fragments
- fireballLuminous meteor or explosion
demolition · dynamite · TNT · C4 · ignition · fuse · crater · debris
Aggressive act against another
- IEDMakeshift explosive weapon
- vestSleeveless upper-body garment
- extremistOne holding fringe views
- plotStoryline or land parcel
cell · target · casualties · civilian · massacre · atrocity · rampage · radicalization
airstrike
Aircraft-delivered military attack
campaign · strike · shelling · barrage · blitz · tactical · precision · targeting · munitions · payload
detonation
Explosive ignition event
- blastSudden forceful burst
- shockwavePropagating pressure disturbance
- shrapnelScattered explosion fragments
fireball · demolition · dynamite · TNT · C4 · ignition · fuse · crater · debris · destruction
attack
Aggressive act against another
plot · cell · target · casualties · civilian · massacre · atrocity · rampage · radicalization · militant
flop
Complete commercial failure
debacle · disaster · turkey · clunker · washout · letdown · disappointment · tanked · flopped · misfire
tagging
Attaching identifying markers
- spraypaintPressurized pigment in cans
- throwupsRapid graffiti lettering style
- piecesParts of something divided
tags · aerosol · writers · crew · caps · burners · fills · outlines · vandalism · subway
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- wrongdoingscrime, crimes, sin, sins, wrongdoing
- war violencemassacre, shelling, combat, battle, airstrike
- airstrikesairstrike, air strike, air raid, strafing, strafing run
bombingkilling it
Succeeding spectacularly
crushing it · succeeding · slaying · triumphing · nailing it
bombingdefending
Protecting against harm
ground combat · hand-to-hand combat · fortifying · naval warfare · shelling
bombingrebuilding
Constructing anew after destruction
building · constructing · reconstruction · restoration · creating
- bombing runCombat aircraft attack mission
- carpet bombingsIntensive widespread aerial attacks
- atomic bombingNuclear weapon attack
- love bombingManipulative excessive affection
- WWII bombingsAerial attacks during second global conflict
- car bombingAttack via explosive-laden vehicle