love-bombing
love-bombing is the alternative form of love bombing.
love-bombing is the present participle and gerund of love-bomb.
Meaning of love bombing
Noun
love bombing (uncountable)
- An attempt to influence a person by lavish demonstrations of attention and affection.
- But in cases of love bombing, attention flows in a single direction: One person tries to become the other’s whole world.2022 January 10, Gina Cherelus, “What Is ‘Love Bombing’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2022
Meaning of love-bomb
Verb
love-bomb (third-person singular simple present love-bombs, present participle love-bombing, simple past and past participle love-bombed)
- To be exceptionally loving to; to bestow a lot of love on, especially to gain influence on a person.
- He love-bombed me and sent me excessive words of affirmation. He told me I was special, that I was the only one in the world whom he had ever loved and would ever love.2022, Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection, Penguin, →ISBN, page xxiv
Questions about love-bombing
- What is love-bombing the alternative form of?
- Love-bombing is the alternative form of love bombing.
Words near love-bombing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: love-bombing (page history and authors); love bombing (page history and authors); love-bomb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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