blitz

CEFRC1

/blɪts/

verb · noun

Türkçe translations

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01
verb
A sudden, intense attack or effort.
02
verb
Extra detail
A play in which additional defenders beyond the defensive linemen rush the passer.

Examples

The police are having a blitz on drink driving, hooliganism and hoon driving this weekend.
The US led a blitz campaign against Iraq.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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In context

The Washington High defense almost always blitzes on third down.
To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in the food processor before adding the parsley and breadcrumbs.
We embarked on a publicity blitz, putting posters and flyers all around town.

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Ultimately, though, Liverpool had inflicted a grievous result in the first leg when they scored three times in a 19-minute blitz and, importantly, did not concede an away goal.
2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian
He [Yoshihide Suga] seems to be counting on a media blitz with feel-good effects around the Games to improve his sagging popularity.
2021 March 25, Koichi Nakano, “The Olympics Are On! But Why?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules.
2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times
As well as its revamped search bar, Google unveiled a blitz of other innovations that point to the longer-term evolution of the product.
2025 May 24, Stephen Morris, Melissa Heikkilä, Cristina Criddle, “Defending the high ground”, in FT Weekend (Big Read section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7
So the question remains — what to do with ignorance, which I must presume is deliberate, as in this media-blitzed era it is not possible to be truly ignorant after age 12.
1990 February 4, Chrystos, “Headaches And Ruminations”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 9

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Clipping of blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).