Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

firebombing

/fˈaɪɚbˌɑmɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English

Syllables: fire-bomb-ing
IPA: /fˈaɪɚbˌɑmɪŋ/

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of firebomb

noun

An attack with a firebomb.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Inflected Forms

firebombings (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce firebombing?: The recorded pronunciation is /fˈaɪɚbˌɑmɪŋ/.
What does firebombing mean?: present participle and gerund of firebomb

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