blitz

Speech parts

1. blitz - Noun

2. blitz - Verb

3. Blitz - Proper noun

Meaning

a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment

(American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line

attack suddenly and without warning

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

blitzkrieg sally attack campaign pelt juggernaut snatcher charge effort drive strike invasion destroy offensive bomb
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Antonyms

retard slow brake lag slacken slow down
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Hypernyms

play attack onset maneuver onslaught manoeuvre

Phrases with the word

blitz torte blitz attack blitz through dutch blitz bejeweled blitz

Anagrams

Biltz

Examples

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war. A. S. Byatt

The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer. Gene Roddenberry

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. Harold Pinter

The "interface” of the Renaissance was the meeting of medieval pluralism and modern homogeneity and mechanism – a formula for blitz and metamorphosis. Marshall McLuhan

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz its helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if youre just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport. Jane Curtin

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz. Stephen Dorff

Close letter words and terms

blittable blitter Blitum bonus-henricus blitz attack blitz chess blitz out