carpet-bomb

verb

car·​pet-bomb ˈkär-pət-ˌbäm 

variants or carpet bomb

carpet-bombed or carpet bombed; carpet-bombing or carpet bombing; carpet-bombs or carpet bombs

transitive verb

1

: to drop large numbers of bombs so as to cause uniform devastation over (a given area)

2

: to bombard repeatedly, widely, or excessively

carpet-bomb the country with advertising

Examples of carpet-bomb in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The only reliable way to reach mainstream or even moderate recognition against all the noise is to either carpet-bomb social media with clips or to enrage wide swaths of the public. — Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 30 July 2026

Major labels had the marketing resources and relationships to carpet-bomb these formats, sending listeners scrambling to cough up cash for records or CDs or downloads. — Elias Leight, Billboard, 16 May 2025

The magazine helped launch Bob Marley into global superstardom, championed Jimi Hendrix and Diana Ross, stood up for hip-hop in the early Nineties, when politicians tried to carpet-bomb it, and put Tina Turner on the cover of its second issue ever. — Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023

Being able to carpet-bomb the electorate with political ads on Mediaset, while also wielding influence on RAI’s news channels, also helped. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 13 June 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for carpet-bomb

• diatom
• intercom
• aplomb
• balaam
• begam
• cocom
• embalm
• islam
• pogrom
• salaam
• sitcom
• balm