coventrate
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English
Etymology
From Coventry + -ate (verb-forming suffix), following German coventrieren. Coventry, England, was devastated by German firebombing in November 1940, during World War II.
Pronunciation
Verb
coventrate (third-person singular simple present coventrates, present participle coventrating, simple past and past participle coventrated)
- (transitive) To devastate by heavy bombing.
Derived terms
Translations
devastate by heavy bombing
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References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “coventrate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.