bomb

CEFRB1

/bɒm/

noun

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noun
A weapon that explodes.
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noun
Extra detail
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.

Examples

A fanatic threw a bomb at the king's coach.
A time bomb went off in the airport killing thirteen people.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
The atomic bomb.
A grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell.

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In context

The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city.
During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.
The children are playing with water bombs in the garden.

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The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb.
2008, Sidney Gelb, Foreign Service Agent, page 629
If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.
2014 April 25, Martin Lukacs, “Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 20, page 13
A bomb for this study is defined as one in which the deepening rate is the geostrophic equivalent of at least 12 mb in 12 h at 45ºN.
1980 October, Frederick Sanders with John R. Gyakum, “Synoptic-dynamic climatology of the 'bomb'”, in Monthly Weather Review, volume 108, number 10, page 1596
The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb.
2008, François Cardarelli, Materials Handbook: A Concise Desktop Reference, page 276
"The hard Brexiteers have built a bomb under the UK automotive industry and the EU have lit it," they said.
2018 June 6, “Brexit: EU advises businesses not to use British components because of Theresa May's plan to leave customs union”, in The Guardian

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Origin

noun

From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.

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noun

The terrorists planted a powerful blank inside the crowded train station.