bombed
adjective
[ bɒmd ]
• (of an area or building) subjected to bombing.
• "the rubble of a bombed house"
• intoxicated by drink or drugs.
• "‘We might as well get bombed out of our minds ’, he said, downing another bottle"
bomb
verb
• attack (a place or object) with a bomb or bombs.
• "they bombed the city at dawn"
Similar:
bombard,
drop bombs on,
explode,
blast,
shell,
torpedo,
blitz,
strafe,
pound,
attack,
assault,
raid,
blow up,
blow to bits,
blow sky-high,
destroy,
wipe out,
level,
raze (to the ground),
demolish,
flatten,
topple,
wreck,
devastate,
pulverize,
obliterate,
ravage,
smash,
cannonade,
• move very quickly.
• "we were bombing down the motorway at breakneck speed"
Similar:
speed,
hurry,
race,
run,
sprint,
dash,
bolt,
dart,
rush,
hasten,
hurtle,
career,
streak,
shoot,
whizz,
zoom,
go like lightning,
go hell for leather,
spank along,
bowl along,
rattle along,
whirl,
whoosh,
buzz,
swoop,
flash,
blast,
charge,
stampede,
gallop,
sweep,
hare,
fly,
wing,
scurry,
scud,
scutter,
scramble,
belt,
pelt,
tear,
hotfoot it,
zap,
zip,
whip,
scoot,
scorch,
burn rubber,
go like a bat out of hell,
bucket,
shift,
put one's foot down,
go like the clappers,
leg it,
wheech,
clip,
boogie,
hightail,
barrel,
lay rubber,
get the lead out,
fleet,
post,
hie,
drive,
drag/tear/haul ass,
• (of a film, play, or other event) fail badly.
• "it just became another big-budget film that bombed"
Similar:
fail,
be unsuccessful,
not succeed,
lack success,
fall through,
fall flat,
break down,
abort,
miscarry,
be defeated,
suffer defeat,
be in vain,
be frustrated,
collapse,
founder,
misfire,
backfire,
not come up to scratch,
meet with disaster,
come to grief,
come to nothing,
come to naught,
miss the mark,
run aground,
go astray,
flop,
fizzle out,
flatline,
come a cropper,
bite the dust,
blow up in someone's face,
go down like a lead balloon,
Origin:
late 17th century: from French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin.
