carpet-bomb
See also: carpet bomb
English
Verb
carpet-bomb (third-person singular simple present carpet-bombs, present participle carpet-bombing, simple past and past participle carpet-bombed)
- Alternative spelling of carpet bomb
- 1946, The Seventh United States Army in France and Germany, 1944-1945, United States Army, page 700:
- The 42nd Bombardment Wing would carpet-bomb defenses facing Seventh Army. XII Tactical Air Command, of which Brigadier General Glenn O. Barcus had recently become chief.
- 2011, Wolfgang Schneider, Tigers in Normandy, page 167:
- Heavy bombers of the British Bomber Command carpet-bombed the positions of the 276. Infanterie-Division four times.
- 2012, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Legend of Pradeep Mathew: A Novel:
- To win wars you need to carpet-bomb civilians. And to get away with carpet-bombing civilians.
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