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[ UK /bˈɒm/ ]
[ US /ˈbɑm, ˈbɔm/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
  2. strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion
  3. an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
VERB
  1. fail to get a passing grade
    She studied hard but failed nevertheless
    Did I fail the test?
  2. 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.
  • Father exploded a bombshell when he forbade us to go to the prom
  • Two weeks after the police relaxed security at the airports, there was a bomb attack.
  • I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes ‘seem so unnatural’ (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and ‘an indiscriminate attack on civilians’. As I Please
  • 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
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