different between bombing vs coventrate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?m??/
• Rhymes: -?m??

Noun

bombing (plural bombings)

1. The action of dropping bombs from the air.
2. The action of placing and detonating bombs.

Translations

Verb

bombing

1. present participle of bomb

Anagrams

• mobbing

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From bombe +? -ing

Noun

bombing f or m (definite singular bombinga or bombingen, indefinite plural bombinger, definite plural bombingene)

1. a bombing

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From bombe +? -ing

Noun

bombing f (definite singular bombinga, indefinite plural bombingar, definite plural bombingane)

1. a bombing

English

Etymology

From Coventry +? -ate, following German coventrieren. Coventry, England, was devastated by German firebombing in November 1940, during World War II.

Verb

coventrate (third-person singular simple present coventrates, present participle coventrating, simple past and past participle coventrated)

1. (transitive) To devastate by heavy bombing.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “coventrate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN