area bombing
n. carpet bombing, extensive bombing over a specific area in order to completely destroy it, process of dropping many bombs over a specific area (in order to completely destroy it) | ||||
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Area bombing Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
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area bombing
(*) Bombing of a target which is in effect a general area rather than a small or pinpoint target.
(*) Bombing of a target which is in effect a general area rather than a small or pinpoint target.
Area bombing Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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area bombing
Noun
1. an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target
(synonym) carpet bombing, saturation bombing
(hypernym) bombing, bombardment
Noun
1. an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target
(synonym) carpet bombing, saturation bombing
(hypernym) bombing, bombardment
Area bombing Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Area bombardment
Aerial area bombardment is the policy of indiscriminate bombing of an enemy's cities, for the purpose of destroying the enemy's means of producing military materiel, communications, government centres and civilian morale. It differs from the use of bombs to destroy military targets.
The practice came to prominence during the Second World War with the use of large numbers of unguided gravity bombs, often with a high proportion of incendiary bombs, to effect indiscriminate bombing of the target region - either to destroy personnel and/or materiel, or as a means to demoralize the enemy (see terror bombing).
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