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bomb out

British  

verb

  1. (adverb; tr, usually passive) to make homeless by bombing

    24 families in this street have been bombed out

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Working on the Manhattan Project could be justified as part of the effort to defeat Hitler, and especially to keep an atomic bomb out of his hands by beating him to it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2020

You’re going to bomb out or flame out because of maturity and judgment.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2016

“I want this protection even if there is a threat of an atom bomb out there and they ‘think’ I know something about it.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2015

The group – Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the US – is seeking to hammer out a final accord to put an atomic bomb out of Iran’s reach.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2015

He was nutty enough to think he could make an atom bomb out of modeling clay!

From A Filbert Is a Nut by Raphael, Rick

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