suicide bombing
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈsuːɪˌsaɪd ˈbɑːmɪŋ/
- NSFW
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atentado suicida
- Yesterday, a suicide bombing at the marketplace resulted in numerous casualties and widespread fear.
- suicide bombing attack
- a suicide bombing tactic
- a series of suicide bombings
And so even when I finally got a family to that gate after the the suicide bombing, it was a State Department person running the CIA game.
- And so even when I finally got a family to that gate after the the suicide bombing, it was a State Department person running the CIA game.
- And so we found out that this was a big suicide bombing staging point for suicide bombers to go into Kabul.
- The expectation is that these suicide bombings occurred either under ISIS K guidance or under al Qaeda guidance.
Examples
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A government that cannot prevent suicide bombings cannot claim to assure citizens' everyday safety.
Academic text (2010) -
Authorities are still investigating the motives behind the suicide bombing that occurred during the festival.
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I mean, how long before they finally figure out that suicide bombing will not help them win their struggle?
Blog text (5) -
Intelligence has them connected to the most recent suicide bombing in Kenya.
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Only 13 percent said suicide bombing was sometimes or often justified.
Academic text (2011) -
The intensity of violence and suicide bombings has subsided for now.
Blog text (11) -
To deny the motivations of suicide bombing is worse than denying that smoking causes cancer.
Blog text (4) -
Ingushetia's new president, Yevkurov, barely survived a suicide bombing in June 2009, less than a year after taking office.
Academic text (2010) -
Suicide bombings have been responsible for more than half of all Israeli fatalities since 2000.
Academic text (2008) -
The expectation is that these suicide bombings occurred either under ISIS K guidance or under al Qaeda guidance.
Synonyms
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7.9
A dangerous task where people expect to die to reach a goal
An attack where someone blows themselves up to kill or hurt others for a cause
An attack in which a person kills or injures others and also dies, usually using a bomb
How Deadly
- NSFW
35
7.7
- NSFW
1
9.9
∞
1.8
- Specialized
40
4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound noun is compositionally built from 'suicide' (deliberate self-killing) + 'bombing' (attack involving bombs), so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a bombing carried out by someone intending to kill themselves. This modifier-noun pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, making the meaning predictable rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
The noun suicide bombing names a violent act that comes from a plain image: the parts suicide ('to kill yourself') and bombing ('using a bomb') show a person who carries or wears a bomb and sets it off, causing their own death. So, the phrase means an attack where the attacker deliberately explodes a bomb and dies.