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Synonyms and Antonyms of bombing
- following the reporter's obscene outburst, viewers bombed the television station with an unprecedented number of complaints
- skiers bombing down the slope vied for the coveted gold medal
barreling (or barrelling), belting, blasting, blazing, blowing, bolting, bowling, breezing, bundling, bustling, buzzing, cannonballing, careening, careering, chasing, coursing, cracking (on), dashing, driving, flying, haring, hastening, highballing, hotfooting (it), humping, hurling, hurrying, hurtling, hustling, hying (or hieing), jetting, jumping, motoring, nipping, pelting, racing, ramming, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, rustling, scooting, scurrying, scuttling, shooting, speeding, stepping, tearing, traveling (or travelling), trotting, whirling, whisking, zipping, zooming
- the chichi restaurant bombed big-time, lasting only six months
- it's no surprise that the inexperienced baseball team got totally bombed in its first game
annihilating, blowing away, burying, clobbering, creaming, drubbing, dusting, flattening, pasting, routing, shellacking, skinning, skunking, smoking [slang], smothering, snowing under, thrashing, trimming, tromping, trouncing, walloping, waxing [slang], whipping, whomping, whopping (or whapping), whupping
beating, besting, conquering, dispatching, hurdling, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), subduing, surmounting, taking, throwing, triumphing (over), winning (against), worsting
crushing, knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, overwhelming, subjugating, upending, vanquishing
acing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending
edging (out), nosing out, pipping [British]
capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeeding
breaking, destroying, doing in, finishing, sinking, slaughtering
- the enemy has bombed the city again
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