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

Hours after their departure from Kyiv, Putin resumed bombing. — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

The balloting, however, was marred by a bombing and a deadly shooting. — Teresa Cerojano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Before 9/11, the deadliest attack on American soil was the bombing of Pearl Harbor. — Darren Franich, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

In fact, after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, which killed six and injured more than a thousand people but hardly rocked the buildings, ironworkers mocked the idea that any terrorist could ever take down those great structures. — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

One of them survived the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center. — Sheryl Lee, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026

The 1992 Ruby Ridge confrontation and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing came from that milieu. — Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026

This specious parallel is all too readily available; the bombing of Dresden is the more obvious comparison. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026

Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images Kelly was a civilian on 9/11, but the 1993 World Trade Center bombing happened on his watch. — Chris Wragge, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026

Verb

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

In 2003, Libya formally took responsibility for bombing Pan Am 103. — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026

The meeting came after nearly two weeks of the United States bombing Iran, with Tehran striking back against allies in the region, including a hit on a military base in Jordan that killed three American service members. — Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026