bomb out

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Definition
  1. Verb:
    • To make somebody homeless by destroying their houses with bombs: This is the primary meaning, referring to the specific act of rendering people homeless through aerial bombardment or explosive devices that destroy their dwellings.
Usage Examples
  • Verb:
    • The relentless air raids threatened to bomb out the entire civilian population of the city.
    • Many families were bombed out during the war and had to seek shelter in camps.
Advanced Usage
  • The term is often used in a passive construction ("to be bombed out") to describe the state of having lost one's home to bombing.
    • After the attack, they were completely bombed out and had nothing left.
Variants and Related Words
  • Bombing (n): The act of attacking with bombs.
    • The bombing campaign caused widespread destruction.
  • Bombed-out (adj): Describing a building or area that has been destroyed by bombs.
    • They walked through the bombed-out streets of the old town.
Synonyms
  • Displace by bombing: To force someone to leave their home specifically through explosive attack.
  • Make homeless through bombardment: A more descriptive phrase with the same meaning.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Bomb out is itself a phrasal verb. It does not have further phrasal verb variants with distinct meanings.
Related Idioms
  • To be bombed out of house and home: An idiomatic reinforcement of the core meaning, emphasizing total loss of one's dwelling.
    • The refugees had been bombed out of house and home.
Verb
  1. make somebody homeless by destroying their houses with bombs

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