Thesaurus: bomb

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1. n. A great noise; a hollow sound.
2. n. A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
3. n. A bomb ketch.
4. v. t. To bombard.
5. v. i. To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
6. n. an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
7. n. strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion
8. n. an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
9. v. throw bombs at or attack with bombs
10. v. fail to get a passing grade
11. 1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.] A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon. 2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell. 3. A bomb ketch. Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion. -- Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel. -- Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. -- Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. "I noticed volcanic bombs." Darwin. To bombard. [Obs.] Prior. To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
12. A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars.See Shell.