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
• whipping
• throwing
• overcoming
• flattening
• upsetting
• routing
• annihilating
• beating
• dusting
• smoking
• smothering
• mastering
• thrashing
• trimming
• taking
• pasting
• blowing away
• destroying
• topping
• sweeping
• scoring
• skinning
• overwhelming
• succeeding
• clobbering
• tromping
• waxing
• creaming
• whopping
• conquering
• drubbing
• walloping
• dispatching
• crushing
• shellacking
• whupping
• trouncing
• slaughtering
• capping
• surpassing
• exceeding
• eating alive
• snowing under
• whomping
• skunking
• running circles around
• beating the pants off
• wiping the floor with
• overthrowing
• finishing
• licking
• subduing
• prevailing (over)
• subjugating
• winning (against)
• vanquishing
• triumphing (over)
• surmounting
• overpowering
• hurdling
• knocking over
• 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

Israel responded with an intense bombing campaign and ground invasion. —ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026

The two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, which provided some respite from weeks of bombing and missile attacks, is set to expire this Wednesday if the parties don’t find a way to extend it. —Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026

The Panama bombing occurred just one day after the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish community center AMIA in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people and also remains unsolved. —Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026

Eighty-five people were killed in the bombing. —Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026

As in Gaza, the recent bombing of Lebanon has been indiscriminate, with unforgivable civilian casualties. —Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026

About 20,000 sailors and 2,000 ships carrying around 21 billions liters of oil are stuck in the key waterway between Iran and Oman — which has been under fire since US-Israeli bombing in late February and retaliatory Iranian strikes set off regional violence. —Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026

Switzerland, by contrast, isn’t exactly known for its bombing campaigns or support for proxy militias. —Philippe Welti, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2026

Margaret Thatcher survived the 1984 Brighton bombing and lived until 2013. —Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 Apr. 2026

Verb

Iran’s enrichment capabilities have been reduced by bombing this year and last. —Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026

The center is named after bombing survivor Gillian Reny, who nearly lost a leg but was saved by first responders. —Neal Riley, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026

That’s not through blockading a drop of oil from reaching an island through bombing the economic infrastructure of the island, and through maximalist foreign policy pressures threatening military intervention. —NBC news, 12 Apr. 2026

Suzie got to show versatility and sexiness after bombing the Vegas challenge. —Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2026

Then days later the US and Israel began bombing Iran. —Clay Chandler, semafor.com, 10 Apr. 2026

Why Israel is bombing Lebanon amid the ceasefire. —Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026

The next day, the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, launching the country into war. —Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026

Human Rights Watch has said bombing them would constitute a war crime. —Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026