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fly-bombed

fly-bombed adjective: hit by flying bombs.

Adjective

fly-bombed (comparative more fly-bombed, superlative most fly-bombed)

  1. Hit by flying bombs.
    • Croydon was the most fly-bombed area of London, and the nightly (and daily) noise of these doodle-bugs became a menace which had to be endured. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/41/a2913941.shtml

Forms of fly-bombed

comparativemore fly-bombed
superlativemost fly-bombed

Questions about fly-bombed

What does fly-bombed mean?
Fly-bombed means hit by flying bombs.
What part of speech is fly-bombed?
Fly-bombed is an adjective.

Words near fly-bombed in the dictionary

  1. fly-backs
  2. fly-bitten
  3. fly-blown
  4. fly-boat
  5. fly-boats
  6. fly-bombed
  7. fly-bottle
  8. fly-bottles
  9. fly-box
  10. fly-boxes
  11. fly-boy

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