Bomb Out (Verb)
Meaning
Make somebody homeless by destroying their houses with bombs.
Classification
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities.
Examples
- The militants bomb out the entire village in a single night, leaving its occupants to fend for themselves elsewhere.
- Local authorities accused foreign forces of launching aerial strikes that bomb out civilian settlements in the conflict zone.
- After years of clashes between government forces and rebels, the once-thriving town was bomb out by artillery fire, displacing thousands of families.
- Charity organizations reported that the continuous bombing campaigns had begun to bomb out residents from major cities into makeshift refugee camps.
- Airstrikes by enemy forces bomb out whole neighborhoods overnight.