blitzkrieged

verb

past tense of blitzkrieg
as in bombed
to use bombs or artillery against the Germans were determined to blitzkrieg London until the British surrendered

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  1. bombed
  2. attacked
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  • That changed a bit earlier this month when the Houthis bombed the Saudi East-West pipeline, temporarily shutting down roughly 7 million barrels of oil flowing to the Red Sea – more than half of which had been diverted from the Strait of Hormuz.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Palminteri argued that early career struggles do not define a player's potential, pointing to guys like Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield who got drafted, bombed, busted, and then roared back.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of bombed
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  • Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Friday that Ukraine attacked four Russian oil refineries overnight, but air defenses fended off the attacks.
    — HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Trust took another nosedive when OpenAI’s agents attacked Hugging Face this summer and, in a world-first, a rogue model hacked the Australian Government’s website.
    — Yerbol Orynbayev, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2026
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“Blitzkrieged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blitzkrieged. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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