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superbombardment en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /suːpəɹˈbɒmˌbɑːdmənt/

Etymology

From super- + bombardment.

Meanings

1. (rare) A very severe bombardment.
   • Maybe our people have recovered somewhat from the sermonic superbombardments they used to get on this subject. 1972, John Drescher, Gospel Herald (1972: January-June), Mennonite Publishing House, page 74:
   • In the apt expression of Fortune, while the cannon remain silent, a "superbombardment of brains" is going on. 1966, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, Volume 18, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, page 34:
   • The minutes of that conference may never be made public, bue we know that heaven-sent inspiration and belief in the axiom, "if you intend to do a thing, do it well," which ever British school boy writes in his earlies copybook, R.A.F laid plans for the superbombardment of Europe by asking the British aircraft industry to construct four-engined bombers, armed and armored each to carry some eight tons of bombs over a 2000-mile range. 2015, Keith Ayling, Bombers, Tannenberg Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:
   • Wishing to give his troops a wider experience of an attack against entrenchment, and being desirous of ascertaining the effect of a superbombardment by artillery he delivered an attack on Neuve Chapelle with his First Army. 2012, Frederick Ernest Whitton, The History of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment - Volume 2, Naval & Military Press, →ISBN, page 120:
   • This superactivity sustains a superbombardment of the respiratory center. 1946, American Journal of Physiology, Volume 145, American Physiological Society, page 12:

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