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