bombed
Americanadjective
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completely intoxicated; drunk.
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completely under the influence of drugs; high.
adjective
Usage
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.
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Example Sentences
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Heavily bombed during World War Two because of its huge manufacturing capacity, Manchester became a creative hub from the 1980s onwards with bands like New Order and Oasis achieving global fame.
From BBC • Jul. 5, 2026
She was writing partly to thank him, and partly because she was angry, and didn’t know what to do with a scholarship to study journalism in the country that had just bombed her country’s embassy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
All we see is when a boat is bombed or when someone’s promotion is stopped.
From Slate • Jun. 17, 2026
According to a CNN report on Sunday, satellite images show that Iran has unblocked 50 out of the 69 tunnel entrances bombed by the US and Israel at 18 underground missile facilities.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Jack’s hometown of Gdynia looked the same, for although Hitler had used its ports, the Allies had not bombed it.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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