carpet bomb

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word carpet bomb. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word carpet bomb, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say carpet bomb in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word carpet bomb you have here. The definition of the word carpet bomb will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofcarpet bomb, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: carpet-bomb

English

Alternative forms

Verb

carpet bomb (third-person singular simple present carpet bombs, present participle carpet bombing, simple past and past participle carpet bombed)

  1. To bomb an area in such a manner that the ordnance covers the entire area without gaps.
    The infantry were destroyed after the enemy carpet bombed the ground they were occupying.
    • 2008, Conrad Jones, Soft Target: Tank. II‎, page 237:
      Russian bombers were carpet bombing the ridge directly above them, in a vain attempt to kill the Mujahideen fighters that plagued their operations on the ground.
    • 2010, Ken Welch, Tiger Hound: How We Won the War & Lost the Country‎, page 52:
      Vietnamese Air Force continued to carpet bomb any base areas that we found to be lucrative targets at the time.
    • 2015, Ram Puniyani, Deconstructing Terrorist Violence: Faith as a Mask‎:
      Post World War II (WW II), terrorism against the people acquired a new dimension when America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and later carpet bombed Vietnam with Napalm.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

carpet bomb (plural carpet bombs)

  1. A bomb used in a carpet bombing.
    • 2007, Services Marketing: Text And Cases‎:
      This multiplicity of outlets work like carpet bombs that leave very little empty space for competition to be comfortable.
    • 2009, William Ayers, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist‎:
      There was a whole new lexicon to learn: cluster bombs, fragmentation bombs, carpet bombs, napalm bombs, phosphorous bombs with their delicate spidery fingers stretching in all directions.
    • 2010, William Little, The Psychic Tourist: A Voyage into the Curious World of Predicting the Future‎:
      What he really means is that the psychics' powers under test functioned more like a carpet bomb than a precision missile.
  2. A bombing of this kind.
    • 2004, Keats Hanson, James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing: Prima's Official Strategy Guide:
      This underground arena features switches that trigger lasers, and a carpet bomb of the entire lower and upper levels.
    • 2007, Doug Green, No Wife No Kids No Plan‎:
      I watched in awe as the pans and glasses exploded halfway across the lawn, erupting from the tarp like a simulated war scenario where the plan of attack was a carpet bomb initiated from the sky.
    • 2014, Jerald Ford, When I Am King‎, volume 2, page 290:
      They were probably afraid that we would bury them in another carpet bomb of expletives.

Translations

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia