superbombardment
/suːpəɹˈbɒmˌbɑːdmənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A very severe bombardment.
Example Sentences
- "This superactivity sustains a superbombardment of the respiratory center."
- "In the apt expression of Fortune, while the cannon remain silent, a "superbombardment of brains" is going on."
- "Maybe our people have recovered somewhat from the sermonic superbombardments they used to get on this subject."
- "Wishing to give his troops a wider experience of an attack against entrenchment, and being desirous of ascertaining the effect of a superbombardment by artillery he delivered an attack on Neuve Chapelle with his First Army."
- "The minutes of that conference may never be made public, bue we know that heaven-sent inspiration and belief in the axiom, "if you intend to do a thing, do it well," which ever British school boy writes in his earlies copybook, R.A.F laid plans for the superbombardment of Europe by asking the British aircraft industry to construct four-engined bombers, armed and armored each to carry some eight tons of bombs over a 2000-mile range."
Etymology
From super- + bombardment.