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UK
/bˈɒm/
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[ US /ˈbɑm, ˈbɔm/ ]
[ US /ˈbɑm, ˈbɔm/ ]
NOUN
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an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned
the first experiment was a real turkey - strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion
- an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
VERB
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fail to get a passing grade
She studied hard but failed nevertheless
Did I fail the test? -
throw bombs at or attack with bombs
The Americans bombed Dresden
How To Use bomb In A Sentence
- The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
- A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
- Urban guerrillas detonated a car bomb in front of the company's headquarters.
- Before that I was the sales manager with a Bombay consumer electricals company.
- But he likes the feeling of pride he gets when marshaling a bomber plane to the runway for a launch - no matter the weather.
- Fifty years on and technology seems to have leapt on by generations as you see the mushroom shaped cloud of the first nuclear test bomb rising high above the New Mexico desert.
- He allegedly discussed with them the idea of detonating a nuclear or radiological bomb in the United States. The Missing Padilla Video
- It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. Erma Bombeck
- Anti-monarchist rebels bombed the police base a, triggering a fierce exchange of fire.
- The waste from a defunct reactor is full of plutonium, a highly toxic metal used as the explosive in atomic bombs.
