bomb: translation
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noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ big, huge, large, massive
▪ small
▪ cluster, fire (usually firebomb), high-explosive, incendiary, mortar, nail, petrol (BrE), smoke
▪ atom, atomic, hydrogen, neutron, nuclear
▪ bouncing (BrE), flying
▪ terrorist
▪ home-made
▪ unexploded
▪ stray (esp. BrE)
▪ Their truck was hit by a stray bomb.
▪ dummy (esp. BrE), fake
▪ The suspect was apprehended for planting a fake bomb in a bus terminal.
▪ a practice flight with dummy bombs
▪ car, roadside
▪ letter, parcel (BrE)
▪ dirty
▪ smart (= one that is controlled by an electronic device)
▪ suicide
▪ time (figurative)
▪ He described global warming as ‘an environmental time bomb’.
VERB + BOMB
▪ place, plant, put
▪ Police suspect terrorists planted the bomb.
▪ carry
▪ The plane had been adapted to carry bombs.
▪ drop, release
▪ Enemy planes dropped bombs on the airport.
▪ defuse, disarm
▪ detonate, explode, set off
▪ build, construct, develop, test (These verbs are only used about countries.)
▪ India started to build a nuclear bomb.
▪ make
▪ He used a clock to make a home-made bomb.
▪ strap, strap on
▪ The bombs were strapped to their chests.
BOMB + VERB
▪ fall, rain, rain down
▪ Eighty people died when bombs rained down on the city's crowded streets.
▪ hit sth
▪ detonate, explode, go off
▪ blow sb/sth to pieces, blow sth up, destroy sth, kill sb, rip through sth
▪ Fifteen people were blown to pieces by the car bomb.
▪ A terrorist bomb ripped through the station.
▪ target sb/sth
▪ be ticking away
BOMB + NOUN
▪ attack, blast, explosion
▪ alert (esp. BrE), scare, threat, warning (BrE)
▪ plot
▪ hoax (BrE)
▪ disposal, squad
▪ shelter
▪ crater
▪ The land was scarred with bomb craters.
▪ damage
▪ site
▪ factory
▪ victim
▪ suspect
▪ test
▪ the fallout from atomic bomb tests
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verb
ADVERB
▪ heavily
▪ The city had been very heavily bombed.
▪ accidentally, mistakenly
Bomb is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑aircraft
Bomb is used with these nouns as the object: ↑barracks, ↑embassy