bomb site
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4.5
- noun
- /bɑm saɪt/
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- For hours, they wandered numbly around the bomb site, sick with fear for their children.
- visit the bomb site
And I'm afraid by the time I started doing crime, the war, England would still have bomb sites.
- And I'm afraid by the time I started doing crime, the war, England would still have bomb sites.
Examples
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There's the front gate, the police car and the bomb site.
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These are fossilised bone fragments... that I've been able to study, that were... gathered at the bomb site in Dallas.
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We found it at the bomb site.
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I need personnel to the second bomb site immediately!
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I'm heading to the second bomb site!
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Mulder, you knew before we got here this man didn't die at the bomb site.
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Most of us also went to the bomb site hoping to see the rescue operation, walked through the broken glass on Nairobi downtown streets, and knew people who had been injured or who died.
Academic text (2005) -
Sunday morning was cold, blue, and sunny, though the debris on the bomb site was still damp and shifted under our feet, pieces of brick breaking loose, as Ginger and I made our way to Mum's.
Fiction book (1994) -
The mourning period is over here, but people still come to the bomb site.
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After the war, those bomb sites were crawling with kids.
Antonyms
How Damaged
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an area damaged or destroyed by bombs' is directly and literally derived from combining 'bomb' (an explosive device) with 'site' (a place or location) — i.e. a site associated with bombs. This noun-noun compounding is a common, compositional pattern in English (and parallels exist in many other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Bomb site comes from a simple, literal image: a place where a bomb fell and left a ruined site with rubble and broken buildings. That's why it means 'an area destroyed or badly damaged by bombs'.