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love bomb en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An attempt to influence a person by lavish demonstrations of attention and affection.
   • Be careful not to drop love bombs, and try not to get wrapped up in someone else's bombing. 2023, Dawn Dais, The Sh!t No One Tells You About Divorce: A Guide to Breaking Up, Falling Apart, and Putting Yourself Back Together, Hachette, →ISBN:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
lovebomb		alternative	lexicographic
love bombs	Number=Plur		lexicographic
love-bomb		alternative	lexicographic

Translations (1)

es bomba amorosa (Translations)

love bomb en · VERB

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of love-bomb.
   alt of love-bomb
   • My hypothesis is that a great many of the troubled children who have been love bombed would have had elevated or blunted cortisol prior to the intervention and that measured afterwards, the experience would have “reset” them to more benign ones. 2018 [2014], Andrew Odgers, editor, From Broken Attachments to Earned Security, Routledge, →ISBN:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
lovebomb		alternative	lexicographic
love bombs	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
love bombing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
love bombed	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
love bombed	Tense=Past		lexicographic
love-bomb		alternative	lexicographic

Relateds

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