bomb

1. 1.

   throw bombs at or attack with bombs

   “The Americans bombed Dresden”

   Synonymsbombard

   Broaderattack

   Narrowercarpet bombbomb outdive-bombglide-bombskip-bombatom-bombhydrogen-bombpattern-bombnukeletter bomb
2. 2.

   fail to get a passing grade

   “She studied hard but failed nevertheless”

   “Did I fail the test?”

   Synonymsfailflunkflush it

Other forms of bomb

plural

bombs·

past tense

bombed·

present participle

bombing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bomb

What does bomb mean?

bomb means "an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bomb?

bomb has 1 syllable: bomb. In IPA it is /ˈbɑm/.

What is another word for bomb?

Close synonyms include bomb calorimeter, turkey, dud, bombard, fail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bomb a common word?

bomb is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bomb?

3 words rhyme with bomb. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.