Word info

bombed out

Speech parts

1. bombed out - Adjective

2. bombed out - Verb

Meaning

bombed out

simple past and past participle of bomb out

bombed out (comparative more bombed out, superlative most bombed out)

Having been destroyed, or turned to rubble, with explosives.

bombed-out (comparative more bombed-out, superlative most bombed-out)

Alternative form of bombed out

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

bombed-out

Examples

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. Christopher Hitchens

Character history In Steel Harbor, a bombed-out wreck of a town, thrill-junkie Barbara Kopetski - better known as "Barb Wire" - is a bar owner and part-time bounty hunter (in order to pay for her bar, The Hammerhead). Source: Internet

Buildings had to be cleared room by room through the bombed-out debris of residential neighborhoods, office blocks, basements and apartment high-rises. Source: Internet

In July 1998, the Taliban closed "all NGO offices" by force after those organizations refused to move to a bombed-out former Polytechnic College as ordered. Source: Internet

All kinds of besotted, bombed-out, starving, mangy, metaphoric and misunderstood man-eaters are now on the loose. Source: Internet

Fearing for her life, she flees with their neighbor Akhmed—a failed physician—to the bombed-out hospital, where Sonja, the one remaining doctor, treats a steady stream of wounded rebels and refugees and mourns her missing sister. Source: Internet

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