bomb
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
Noun 4 meanings
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
Any explosive charge.
“The mineworkers are setting their bombs.”
A bag or balloon containing a substance such as water, flour, or paint, designed to burst and splatter.
“The children are playing with water bombs in the garden.”
Anything that is at risk of exploding (literally) or that has exploded.
“That turkey fryer is a bomb waiting to go off.”
Verb 4 meanings
To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, in order to maximise the resulting splash.
To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
To move at high speed.
“I was bombing down the road on my motorbike.”
Etymology
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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BOMB at a glance
BOMB has 4 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (B 3 + O 1 + M 3 + B 3) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,419 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with bomb
All rhymes- TOMB8
- WOMB11
- COMB10
- HONEYCOMB21
- COULOMB13
- APLOMB12
- FIREBOMB17
- CATACOMB16
- PHOTOBOMB20
- TIMEBOMB16
- ENTOMB10
- COXCOMB22
One letter away
- TOMB8
- WOMB11
- COMB10
- BOMA8
- BOAB8
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