Firebombing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Firebombing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of firebomb.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of firebomb.
More Meanings
- An attack with a firebomb.
Example Sentences
A Queens man who faces charges related to five firebombings in the New York City metropolitan area is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation, authorities said late Tuesday.
The horrors Nihei saw that night were the result of Operation Meetinghouse, the deadliest of a series of firebombing air raids on Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces, between February and May 1945.
On November 9, anti-abortion crusader Curtis Beseda confessed in U.S. District Court to three successive firebombings that destroyed the Feminist Women's Health Center in Everett, Wash., and to torching a doctor's clinic in nearby Bellingham.
Word Forms
- firebombings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bombarding, bombing, shelling, firebomber, terrorbombing, bombardment.
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