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

Saturday’s bombing came two days after fighting along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border killed at least 13 Afghan Taliban fighters, according to Pakistan’s government. — ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026

Over the course of his bombing spree, Ted killed three people and injured at least 23 more. — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026

Also to be noted is the bombing of key targets and ground actions, if necessary. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026

That occurred during the government’s violent military crackdown against protesters, over a month before the US and Israel attacked Iran in a major bombing campaign. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 24 Sep. 2026

ChatGPT had been linked to the FSU shooting, as well as to a Cybertruck bombing in Las Vegas, and British Columbia alleged that the Tumbler Ridge shooter should’ve been flagged as threatening as the users in those cases. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026

Reagan after the Challenger explosion, Clinton after the Oklahoma City bombing, the younger Bush after the attacks of 9/11, and Obama at Emanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina. — John Dickerson, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026

The bombing occurred in Kohat, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. — Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026

Its celebrated Sunday crossword — our oldest game at a spry 84 — first ran a little under a century after the paper’s founding, and just two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. — Jonathan Knight, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2026

Verb

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

In 2025, the United States joined Israel in bombing Iran, and in 2026 the United States and Israel launched a full-scale war with the initial objective of regime change in Tehran. — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2026

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

Prabowo vowed the government would continue supporting firefighting operations, including through the deployment of additional water-bombing helicopters and oxygen supplies for firefighters. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026