carpet bombing

Speech parts

1. carpet bombing - Noun

2. carpet bombing - Verb

Meaning

an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

area bombing saturation bombing blitz bombing carpet bomb scorched earth policy BLU-82 dive-bombing bomb raid shuttle bombing bombing in multiple bomb obliteration bombing strategic bombardment pattern bombing
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Hypernyms

bombardment bombing

Examples

D'Este, Carlo, 1983 p. 322-323 On 7 July, Montgomery began Operation Charnwood with a carpet bombing offensive that turned much of the French countryside and the city of Caen into a wasteland. Source: Internet

D'Este, p. 202 (1983) On the early morning of 18 July 1944, Operation Goodwood began with British heavy bombers beginning a carpet bombing attacks that turned what was left of Caen and the surrounding countryside into a wasteland. Source: Internet

Due to this, and the ineffectiveness of carpet bombing (partly because of a lack of identifiable targets), new precision weapons were developed. Source: Internet

Foreign involvement further The relationship between the massive carpet bombing of Cambodia by the United States and the growth of the Khmer Rouge, in terms of recruitment and popular support, has been a matter of interest to historians. Source: Internet

Towards the end of the war, it was claimed that carpet bombing by B-52 aircraft had caused huge casualties among Yugoslav troops stationed along the Kosovo–Albania border. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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