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carpet bomb en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A bomb used in a carpet bombing.
   • This multiplicity of outlets work like carpet bombs that leave very little empty space for competition to be comfortable. 2007, Services Marketing: Text And Cases:
   • There was a whole new lexicon to learn: cluster bombs, fragmentation bombs, carpet bombs, napalm bombs, phosphorous bombs with their delicate spidery fingers stretching in all directions. 2009, William Ayers, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist:
   • What he really means is that the psychics' powers under test functioned more like a carpet bomb than a precision missile. 2010, William Little, The Psychic Tourist: A Voyage into the Curious World of Predicting the Future:
2. A bombing of this kind.
   • I watched in awe as the pans and glasses exploded halfway across the lawn, erupting from the tarp like a simulated war scenario where the plan of attack was a carpet bomb initiated from the sky. 2007, Doug Green, No Wife No Kids No Plan:
   • They were probably afraid that we would bury them in another carpet bomb of expletives. 2014, Jerald Ford, When I Am King, volume 2, page 290:
   • This underground arena features switches that trigger lasers, and a carpet bomb of the entire lower and upper levels. 2004, Keats Hanson, James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide:

Forms

carpet bomb en · VERB

Meanings

1. To bomb (an area) in such a manner that the ordnance covers the entire area without gaps.
   • Vietnamese Air Force continued to carpet bomb any base areas that we found to be lucrative targets at the time. 2010, Ken Welch, Tiger Hound: How We Won the War & Lost the Country, page 52:
   • Post World War II (WW II), terrorism against the people acquired a new dimension when America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and later carpet bombed Vietnam with Napalm. 2015, Ram Puniyani, Deconstructing Terrorist Violence: Faith as a Mask:
   • Russian bombers were carpet bombing the ridge directly above them, in a vain attempt to kill the Mujahideen fighters that plagued their operations on the ground. 2008, Conrad Jones, Soft Target: Tank. II, page 237:
   • The infantry were destroyed after the enemy carpet bombed the ground they were occupying.

Forms

Deriveds

carpet bombing

Synonyms

blanket-bomb

Translations (5)

de ein Flächenbombardement ausführen (bombing an entire area) · ru подве́ргнуть ковровой бомбардировке (bombing an entire area) · fi mattopommittaa (bombing an entire area) · de in der Fläche bombardieren (bombing an entire area) · cmn 地毯式轟炸 /地毯式轰炸 (bombing an entire area)