Definitions for bombed

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Bombed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in bombed (bbdemo).

Definitions for bombed

noun

1. Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
2. any similar missile or explosive device used as a weapon, to disperse crowds, etc.:
3. Also called volcanic bomb. Geology. a rough spherical or ellipsoidal mass of lava, ejected from a volcano and hardened while falling.
4. weather bomb.
5. aerosol bomb.
6. Football. a long forward pass, especially one to a teammate who scores a touchdown.
7. Slang. an absolute failure; fiasco: Synonyms: flop, dud, bust, washout.
8. Computers. a spectacular program failure or system failure.
9. the bomb, Slang. something or someone that is excellent or very impressive:
10. Chiefly British Slang. an overwhelming success:
11. Jazz. a sudden, unexpected accent or rhythmic figure played by a drummer during a performance.
12. a lead or lead-lined container for transporting and storing radioactive materials.
13. the bomb. atomic bomb. nuclear weapons collectively.
14. Slang. a powerful automobile or other vehicle.
15. Slang. something unpleasant that is unexpected or shocking (often used in combination with the first letter of an offensive or unmentionable word, as in f-bomb; s-bomb; n-bomb): Synonyms: bombshell, shocker, kicker, surprise, bolt from the blue.
16. Slang. something unauthorized or illegal that is executed in a stealthy manner, typically having an overwhelming or sensational effect (used in combination, as in mail bomb; graffiti bomb).

adjective

1. completely intoxicated; drunk.
2. completely under the influence of drugs; high.

verb (used with object)

1. to hurl bombs at or drop bombs upon, as from an airplane; bombard:
2. to explode by means of a bomb or explosive.
3. to damage, ruin, defeat, etc., as if with bombs.
4. Computers. to deliberately cause (a computer system) to fail with a program written for the purpose.

verb (used without object)

1. to hurl or drop bombs.
2. to explode a bomb or bombs.
3. Slang. to be or make a complete failure, especially to fail to please or gain an audience (sometimes followed by out): Synonyms: fail, flop.
4. (of a computer program or system) to fail spectacularly.
5. Slang. to spray-paint graffiti over many surfaces in an area, working quickly and using simple forms and designs:
6. Informal. to move very quickly:

Origin of bombed

First recorded in 1935-40; bomb + -ed²

Examples for bombed

You could however, potentially make the case that Bush bombed Yemen as well.

Baugh responded after the first attack there in 1993 and helped tow wrecked cars from the bombed garage.

I was living there when the Atocha train station was bombed down the street some years later.

If she tries to go into A-A drive, she is to be bombed—no matter who is aboard.

But the hospital had not been bombed, which was the great thing.

It was simultaneously torpedoed, mined, scuttled, and bombed.

I take it you were one of the boys who bombed the fighter fields.

Al-Qaeda overran Lahij on August 11 unchallenged, bombed the buildings specified in the memos, then left.

The enemy, on his part, sniped at and bombed our patrols at night.

He became a fire marshal in 1992 and was at the scene after the World Trade Center was bombed the following year.