carpet bomb

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   bomb a large area systematically and extensively

   “The U.S. decided to carpet bomb Vietnam”

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Questions about carpet bomb

What does carpet bomb mean?

carpet bomb means "bomb a large area systematically and extensively".

Is carpet bomb a common word?

carpet bomb 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.