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Word entry · 4 letters

bomb

Best crossword clue

"Detonating device"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /bɒm/Part of speech verb, nounSorted bbmoStarts with BEnds with B2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. throw bombs at or attack with bombs

Word origin

From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.

Used in a sentence

  • The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb.
  • During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.
  • "The hard Brexiteers have built a bomb under the UK automotive industry and the EU have lit it," they said.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Detonating device4 letters
02Failed show, informally4 letters

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