air bombardment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofairandbombardment
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air
noun
uk/eər/us/er/
the mixture of gases that surrounds the earth and that ...
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bombardment
noun[C or U]
uk/bɒmˈbɑːd.mənt/us/bɑːmˈbɑːrd.mənt/
a continuous attack on a place with guns ...
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(Definition ofairandbombardmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Apart from someairbombardment, they have suffered nothing.
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Those are even more encouraging than the effects of theairbombardment.
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What was the actual purpose of the six-dayairbombardment?
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The damage done byairbombardmentwas confined mainly to the shopping centre.
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She has tried to break our spirit in this country by indiscriminateairbombardment.
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They could call in sea andairbombardmentvery quickly.
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Let them all be invited to stamp outairbombardment, which is warfare in its cruellest and most destructive form.
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The only reason we did not make it during the war was that we were underairbombardment.
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They used to say that a little logical international law would abolish all the real objections toairbombardment.
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Some of the hospitals have been underairbombardmentand people had to be moved during the raids.
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What would happen, suppose some foolish country tries to destroy us byairbombardmentand to destroy our morale?
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I come now to another direction in which progress has been made, and that isairbombardment.
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The deaths fromairbombardmentin this country throughout the war, up to the end of 1944, were 58,000.
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Together, they knew that if there was a heavyairbombardment, all would be ready to afford the maximum protection.
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There is no nation in the world which does not realise the appalling consequences ofairbombardment.
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They object that it might slow down the progress of civil aviation—a small price to pay for the protection of civilisation fromairbombardment.
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Their experts said that the best way to defend the civilian population and reduce casualties owing toairbombardmentwas to disperse the population.
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A heavyairbombardmentwas followed by an infantry attack, which succeeded in making an initial breach in the south-east face of the perimeter.
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The men were anxious because their homes were underairbombardment, and there was the boredom of four years' continuous training without fighting.
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He told us the three rules of international law which now governairbombardment, and he described to us the difficulties in their application.
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The intense ten-dayairbombardmenthad substantially reduced the defenses.
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Airbombardmentand media interest ensured that they were well warned.
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As naval andairbombardmentpounded the island, her men skillfully played their part.
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Following naval andairbombardmentof enemy defenses, the first amphibious operation of the war commenced at 0650.
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