blitz
noun
[ blɪts ]
• an intensive or sudden military attack.
• "a heavy artillery blitz"
Similar:
bombardment,
battery,
bombing,
carpet bombing,
onslaught,
barrage,
sally,
attack,
assault,
raid,
offensive,
strike,
blitzkrieg,
razzia,
• a sudden concerted effort to deal with something.
• "Katrina and I had a blitz on the cleaning"
• another term for lightning chess.
blitz
verb
• attack or seriously damage (a place) in a blitz.
• "news came that Rotterdam had been blitzed"
Similar:
bombard,
attack,
pound,
blast,
bomb,
shell,
torpedo,
strafe,
destroy,
wipe out,
wreck,
devastate,
ravage,
smash,
• process (food) in an electric mixing machine.
• "add the eggs and blitz the mixture until it becomes granular"
• charge (the opposing team's quarterback) in a blitz.
Origin:
1930s: abbreviation of blitzkrieg.
