bombed-out

[ bomd-out ]

adjective

destroyed or severely damaged by or as by bombing: a bombed-out village; a bombed-out economy.

Origin of bombed-out

First recorded in 1915–20

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By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.
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But here, amid the rubble of a bombed-out city, rebels had one subject on their minds: the American election.
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There are dozens of weapons stored in the bombed-out building on the outskirts of Al Bab and he had made all of them by hand.
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As we pulled up to the outskirts, we could see that the entire front part of the town had been bombed out.
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It leaves torn-up bodies, bombed-out buildings, coffins, carcasses, and rivers of blood.
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So was Bulgaria finally bombed out of the war by British airmen.
New Zealanders at Gallipoli | Major Fred Waite
The barricades were to be destroyed and the enemy bombed out.
Kitchener's Mob | James Norman Hall

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