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carpet bomb

verb

Definition of carpet bomb

  1. transitive verb
  2. 1 :  to drop large numbers of bombs so as to cause uniform devastation over (a given area)

  3. 2 :  to bombard repeatedly, widely, or excessively <carpet bomb the country with advertising>



1944

First Known Use of carpet bomb

1944


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