bombing run
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈbɑːmɪŋ rʌn/
- Specialized
:
misión de bombardeo
- On the morning of September 11, 1973, as the jet fighters completed their bombing runs, a column of thick black smoke rose from "La Moneda," Chile's presidential palace.
- make a bombing run
- planes on bombing runs
Examples
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Almost as dangerous as flying bombing runs through anti-aircraft and missile fire.
Blog text (9) -
War fever had even reached into Boise, with B-25 bombers practicing their bombing runs from Gowen Field, the big new airbase just half a mile past the ballpark's left field fence.
Fiction book (2000) -
We see an actual atomic bombing run.
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By 1943, he was flying bombing runs over Germany and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Blog text (27) -
During WWII, George Bush, the senior, was shot down during a bombing run on a Japanese target.
Blog text (2) -
Many of the landmarks of Europe were spared because of the efforts of the men who planned the bombing runs during World War II.
Blog text (30) -
The pilot was captured in December after his plane crashed in Syria during a bombing run.
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U.S. and allied jets stepped up the air war Monday with hundreds more bombing runs against Iraqi targets.
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On-camera: Most of the bombing runs over Kosovo are taking place at night.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
bombing + run
The noun combines 'bombing' (an attack using bombs) with 'run' in the sense of a single sortie/operation, so the meaning 'a run in which bombing is carried out' is directly derivable from the constituents. Although 'run' has multiple senses, this compositional pattern (X + run = a period/operation involving X) is regular in English and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The noun bombing run comes from air attacks where a pilot makes a run, a fast pass over a target, to drop bombs. So the words bombing and run now mean the part of a mission from coming in toward the target until the bombs are dropped.