bombed

[bomd]

adjective

Slang.

1. completely intoxicated; drunk.

2. completely under the influence of drugs; high.

bombed

/ bɒmd /

adjective

1. slang,  under the influence of alcohol or drugs (esp in the phrase bombed out of one's mind or skull )

Other Word Forms

• unbombed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bombed¹

First recorded in 1935–40; bomb + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Other cadavers have been discovered by chance, as Syrians sift through the rubble of bombed buildings and reclaim farmland disused during the war.

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President—the same American who bombed Iran and recognized Israeli sovereignty over the once-Syrian Golan Heights.

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And Japan, the only country to have been bombed with atomic weapons, has a particularly complicated relationship with radiation.

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An AFP journalist saw a bombed out car on the road linking the cities of Sidon and Tyre, with traffic piling up as rescuers worked to retrieve the remains.

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Abu Sedo said he was repeatedly confronted with claims from the Israelis that "they had killed our children, our women and bombed our homes".

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When To Use

What does bombed mean?

Bombed is a slang adjective that means extremely drunk or high on drugs or both.Bombed is just one of the many slang synonyms for intoxicated that involve a sense of destruction, including destroyed, blitzed, hammered, smashed, wasted, and trashed. Other synonyms include sloshed, tanked, and plastered. Such words often imply that a person is intoxicated beyond a point of being able to function in even the most basic ways. Someone who’s described as bombed probably can’t even walk or talk properly. In many cases, a person who’s bombed is intoxicated to the point of blacking out—losing consciousness and probably losing their memory of what happened when they were intoxicated.Bombed is often used in the phrases bombed out of one’s mind and bombed out of one’s skull, as in The guy was bombed out of his mind on PCP and ranting and raving at everyone. Example: He got so bombed that he couldn’t remember anything that happened before he woke up in his car, which he had crashed into a tree.