[
UK
/bˈɒmpɹuːf/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells
bombproof shelter
NOUN
- a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids
VERB
- make safe against bombings
How To Use bombproof In A Sentence
- It would be one race [I'd like to win], but that's unrealistic at the moment because the favourite [Big Buck's, likely to be ridden by Ruby Walsh] looks bombproof. World Hurdle the target for Tony McCoy after bagging National set
- These tanks were particularly susceptible to enemy action; none of the tanks had bombproof covers.
- The square central courtyard of the fort is bordered by a series of numerous small bombproof vaults for storing provisions and ammunition.
- Even the supposedly bombproof real estate market in Washington DC lost about $60,000 on a $250,000 house back when the defense budget was merely reduced a little bit back in 1990. Matthew Yglesias » Why a Housing Bubble?
- She quickly snatched up her son and took him down to the bombproof shelter, then volunteered her services to help the wounded men.
- Her bombproof is three inches thick, and is made of wrought Iron. The American Iron-Clad Vessels
- He was, in the parlance of horsemen, 'bombproof.'
- The riding school has operated perfectly trouble-free for at least 15 years and all the horses are practically bombproof with regard to traffic, people, aircraft and everything else.
- The products that on paper seemed to be bombproof and virtually inert turned out to be part of a system that propagates mold, mildew, and rot.
- The car he travels in is a bulletproof and bombproof Jeep Cherokee, which has four-inch thick windows and a steel plate underneath.