bombproof

1. 1.

   a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids

   Synonymsbomb shelterair-raid shelter

   Broaderchamber

1. 1.

   make safe against bombings

   Broaderproof

1. 1.

   able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells

   “bombproof shelter”

   Synonymsshellproof

   Similarinvulnerable

Other forms of bombproof

plural

bombproofs·

past tense

bombproofed·

present participle

bombproofing·

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 bombproof

What does bombproof mean?

bombproof means "a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bombproof?

bombproof has 2 syllables: bomb-proof. The stress falls on "bomb".

What is another word for bombproof?

Close synonyms include bomb shelter, air-raid shelter, shellproof. 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 bombproof a common word?

bombproof is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.