Synonyms of bombing

bombing 1 of 2

noun

as in bombardment

Related Words

• bombardment
• assault
• raid
• air raid
• offensive
• aggression
• onslaught
• attempt
• blitzkrieg
• ambush
• onset
• offense
• rush
• blitz
• strike
• counterattack
• invasion
• coup de main
• counteroffensive
• descent
• sortie
• charge
• ambuscade
• counterassault
• counterstrike
• incursion
• breakthrough
• counteraggression
• envelopment
• sally
• siege
• foray
• sack
• pillage
• flanking
• storm
• ravage

Dissimilar Words

• defense
• resistance
• opposition
• guard
• security
• protection
• defensive
• shield
• shelter

bombing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of bomb

1

as in flooding

to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once

following the reporter's obscene outburst, viewers bombed the television station with an unprecedented number of complaints

Synonyms & Similar Words

• flooding
• bombarding
• questioning
• interrogating
• barraging
• examining
• pumping
• debriefing
• harassing
• grilling
• quizzing
• querying
• annoying
• inundating
• pestering
• hounding
• cross-examining
• catechizing

2

as in flying

slang to proceed or move quickly

skiers bombing down the slope vied for the coveted gold medal

Synonyms & Similar Words

• flying
• racing
• speeding
• traveling
• rushing
• driving
• hurrying
• scurrying
• trotting
• jumping
• zipping
• chasing
• running
• buzzing
• blowing
• blasting
• shooting
• scooting
• stepping
• scuttling
• darting
• zooming
• tearing
• ramming
• ripping
• bowling
• jogging
• blazing
• whirling
• dashing
• bolting
• hurling
• hustling
• humping
• barreling
• bustling
• hastening
• hurtling
• rocketing
• jetting
• motoring
• pelting
• careering
• careening
• cracking (on)
• haring
• rustling
• breezing
• coursing
• bundling
• whisking
• beating it
• highballing
• belting
• cannonballing
• nipping
• hying
• galloping
• stepping on it
• getting a move on
• making tracks
• shaking a leg
• sprinting
• hotfooting (it)
• streaking
• accelerating
• scampering
• flitting
• scudding
• scuffling
• whizzing
• stampeding
• overtaking
• beetling
• outrunning
• quickening
• stepping out
• outpacing
• outstripping
• catching up
• beelining
• arrowing
• fast-forwarding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crawling
• creeping
• dragging
• poking
• lingering
• hanging (around or out)
• lagging
• poking
• loitering
• dawdling
• strolling
• shuffling
• plodding
• sauntering
• lumbering
• ambling
• dallying
• slowing (down or up)
• dillydallying
• decelerating
• tarrying

3

as in collapsing

to be unsuccessful

the chichi restaurant bombed big-time, lasting only six months

Synonyms & Similar Words

• collapsing
• failing
• flopping
• missing
• folding
• struggling
• cratering
• striking out
• tanking
• flunking
• crashing
• foundering
• flaming out
• falling short
• falling flat
• declining
• coming to grief
• dying on the vine
• coming up empty
• laying an egg
• washing out
• coming a cropper
• skidding
• crumbling
• slumping
• falling on one's face
• slipping
• floundering
• misfiring
• sinking
• waning
• miscarrying
• imploding
• going under
• self-destructing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• succeeding
• going
• delivering
• clicking
• working out
• going over
• coming off
• cooking
• thriving
• flourishing
• prospering
• winning
• panning out
• prevailing
• triumphing

4

as in burying

to defeat by a large margin

it's no surprise that the inexperienced baseball team got totally bombed in its first game

Synonyms & Similar Words

• burying
• overcoming
• flattening
• whipping
• throwing
• upsetting
• routing
• annihilating
• beating
• dusting
• smothering
• smoking
• thrashing
• mastering
• trimming
• pasting
• blowing away
• taking
• destroying
• topping
• sweeping
• skinning
• clobbering
• tromping
• scoring
• overwhelming
• waxing
• creaming
• succeeding
• whopping
• drubbing
• walloping
• conquering
• dispatching
• shellacking
• whupping
• crushing
• trouncing
• slaughtering
• capping
• eating alive
• snowing under
• surpassing
• exceeding
• whomping
• running circles around
• skunking
• beating the pants off
• wiping the floor with
• overthrowing
• finishing
• licking
• subduing
• prevailing (over)
• subjugating
• winning (against)
• vanquishing
• triumphing (over)
• overpowering
• surmounting
• knocking over
• hurdling
• upending
• overmatching
• transcending
• overtopping
• eclipsing
• outdoing
• knocking off
• flourishing
• bettering
• besting
• outdistancing
• worsting
• outstripping
• outshining
• sinking
• excelling
• edging (out)
• overbearing
• breaking
• outfighting
• acing (out)
• doing in
• pipping
• nosing out

5

as in attacking

to use bombs or artillery against

the enemy has bombed the city again

Synonyms & Similar Words

• attacking
• shelling
• battering
• bombarding
• blitzing
• pounding
• blitzkrieging
• cannonading
• ravaging
• strafing
• assaulting
• enfilading
• hitting
• raking
• devastating
• assailing
• striking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bombing

Noun

Zaporizhzhia death toll rises to 23 Elsewhere, search and rescue operations ended in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia after a Russian bombing on Saturday, according to Ivan Fedorov, former regional head and co-chair of the regional defense council. — Susie Blann, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026

Elsewhere, search and rescue operations ended in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia after a Russian bombing on Saturday, according to Ivan Fedorov, former regional head and co-chair of the regional defense council. — ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026

Kareem Nikoui, a Norco native, was killed in a suicide bombing attack outside the Kabul Airport during the 2021 evacuation of Afghanistan. — Lesley Marin, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

Digger failed to unearth a profit at the box office this weekend, bombing at an epic scale not yet seen this year. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2026

To have a diversion from all the killing and bombing, and stabbings in this city alone, for a moment? — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Oct. 2026

Royal Air Force Fairford has been used by the United States for long-range bombing missions in its war against Iran. — Violet Jira, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2026

Middle East Gazan fig and date farmers are replanting crops from roots that survived years of Israeli bombing. — Ghada Abdulfattah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026

In 1981, for instance, a bombing wiped out much of the governing Islamic Republican Party’s leadership. — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026

Verb

Russia has been bombing Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, forcing Ukraine to rely increasingly on river ports on the Danube and shipping routes close to the coasts of NATO members Bulgaria and Romania. — Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026

The United States began bombing Iran on February 28 with the goal of destroying the country’s nuclear program, its missile program, and even its government, only to fail spectacularly at each objective. — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026

Ukraine has been systematically bombing some of those refineries, severely curtailing the global supply of diesel fuel. — Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026

The person in the White House has asked Ukraine to stop bombing Russian refineries and oil/gas/diesel facilities. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026

Interviewees describe hacking little girls’ phones to see when their fathers came home and then bombing their houses, listening while the people on the line screamed and pleaded for help, while mothers cried over their burning daughters. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

In 1991, during the Gulf War, America and its allies began bombing Baghdad in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. — David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026

Authorities have deployed more than 50 aircraft for both cloud-seeding — the attempt to artificially simulate rain — and water-bombing operations, according to Reuters. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

The status of its nuclear program, degraded by bombing strikes in 2025, hasn't changed. — Susan Page, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026