Synonyms for bomb
bɒmbomb

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1. bombnoun

   A car in poor condition.

   Synonyms:
   rustbucket

2. bombnoun

   A large amount of money, a fortune.

   make a bomb, cost a bomb

   Synonyms:
   pretty penny, fortune, packet

3. bombnoun

   A very attractive woman; a bombshell.

   Synonyms:
   bombshell

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1. bombnoun

   an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions

   Synonyms:
   bomb calorimeter, turkey, dud

2. bomb calorimeter, bombnoun

   strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion

   Synonyms:
   bomb calorimeter, turkey, dud

3. turkey, bomb, dudverb

   an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual

   "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"

   Synonyms:
   flop, turkey, washout, dud, misfire, joker, bomb calorimeter

4. bombard, bombverb

   throw bombs at or attack with bombs

   "The Americans bombed Dresden"

   Synonyms:
   fail, pelt, barrage, flunk, bombard, flush it

5. fail, flunk, bomb, flush itverb

   fail to get a passing grade

   "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"

   Synonyms:
   go, conk out, give way, flunk, betray, break down, die, neglect, run out, break, flush it, miscarry, give out, fail, go wrong, bombard, go bad

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Calorimeter
   • Explosive Device
   • Weaponry

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1. bombnoun

   Synonyms:
   shell

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1. List of paraphrases for "bomb":

   bombs, pump, bombing, booby-trapped, explosion, bombard, blast, bombards, bombshell, nuke, bombings, bomba, bam, grenade, blaster, hottie, cannonball, explosives-laden, explosions, shell, car, bombardment, blasts, explosive

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bomb

   Synonyms:
   Crash

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1. Marco Rubio:

   Talk is cheap to say you're going to carpet bomb ISIS, how are you going to do that if you don't have the intelligence to do that?

2. Ronen Bergman:

   This is a severe strategic threat to the variety of options that the national security of Israel stands upon, they want to have the bomb in order not to use it. They want to position themselves as a regional superpower and this would give them a nuclear umbrella over their heads.

3. Scott Alcala:

   Ameer Abbaf Fakhraldin was just trying to target as many people as Ameer Abbaf Fakhraldin could, ameer Abbaf Fakhraldin was just trying to cause a pile up. It wasn't me personally. It was as if someone were to throw a bomb in the middle of downtown, it’s no different, it’s the same thinking.

4. Rebecca Ishaya:

   ?We have to stay, we have nowhere to live, no money for rent. We are afraid to farm ... about a week ago a bomb exploded when people went to clear the land. They were hurt.

5. David McClung:

   It was a little scary. It was like an atomic bomb went off.