bombardment
Aerial bombardments have cut off power and isolated parts of the territory from one another.
The advance on the ground was helped by very heavy aerial bombardment.
It has become much more difficult to protect civilians from aerial bombardment.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Detonation & bombardment
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air raid
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blitz
detonate
detonation
detonator
direct hit
dive-bomb
go off
guidance
loose
pepper something with something
petrol bomb
prime
refire
saturation bombing
shell
shoot
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