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bombed-out

[ bomd-out ]

adjective

  1. destroyed or severely damaged by or as by bombing:

    a bombed-out village; a bombed-out economy.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of bombed-out1

First recorded in 1915–20

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Example Sentences

By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.

But here, amid the rubble of a bombed-out city, rebels had one subject on their minds: the American election.

There are dozens of weapons stored in the bombed-out building on the outskirts of Al Bab and he had made all of them by hand.

As we pulled up to the outskirts, we could see that the entire front part of the town had been bombed out.

It leaves torn-up bodies, bombed-out buildings, coffins, carcasses, and rivers of blood.

So was Bulgaria finally bombed out of the war by British airmen.

The barricades were to be destroyed and the enemy bombed out.

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