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# bomb

«bomb» in Mova's school dictionary: **a weapon that explodes to destroy things or hurt people** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bomb, bombs); verb (bomb, bombs, bombed, bombing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bomb is a weapon that explodes to destroy things or hurt people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bomb/#m1)

2) To bomb means to attack with bombs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bomb/#m2)

3) Informally, «to bomb» can mean to fail badly (a film bombed), and in the UK «cost a bomb» means cost a lot of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bomb/#m3)

4) A bath bomb is a fizzy ball you drop in a bath; a «bomb» dive is a jump into water with knees hugged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bomb/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history, pupils learn about bombs in wars, such as the Blitz in London in World War II, when children were evacuated. In safety, if you find a strange object or old bomb, do not touch it — move away and tell an adult or the police; never make jokes about bombs at airports or schools, because they are taken seriously. In everyday life: bath bombs, «bombing» into the pool. Phrases: bomb shelter, cost a bomb, bath bomb, go like a bomb.

### examples

- During the Blitz, families hid in bomb shelters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bomb/#x1)
- Never joke about bombs at the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bomb/#x2)
- If you find an object that looks dangerous, don't touch it — call the police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bomb/#x3)
- I dropped a bath bomb into the water and it fizzed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bomb/#x4)
- That bike must have cost a bomb! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bomb/#x5)
- He did a bomb into the swimming pool and splashed everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bomb/#x6)

### note

Pronounced «bom» — the final b is silent. Countable: bombs. A «bomb» joke is not just a joke: it can cause real alarm and trouble.

### In the corpora

- ["Your room looks like a bomb's hit it" is an exaggeration meaning the room is very messy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/12-cars-chores-and-the-shopping-list/13/)
- [One event is often shown many times on different channels and phones; ten showings of a bombed building are still one building.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/10/)
- [In graffiti slang, bombing means spraying lots of tags quickly, usually illegally; it has nothing to do with real bombs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/12/)
- [It is so tough that ginkgos near the Hiroshima bomb sprouted again from their roots, kept safe under the soil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/3/)
- [A bath bomb holds a dry acid and baking soda that react only when water lets them meet, making carbon dioxide bubbles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bomb» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bomb/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.