"bomb out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bomb out.ogg [Australia] Forms: bombs out [present, singular, third-person], bombing out [participle, present], bombed out [participle, past], bombed out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bomb out (third-person singular simple present bombs out, present participle bombing out, simple past and past participle bombed out)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To fail; to produce no or very poor results; to drop out of or be eliminated from a competition. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-bomb_out-en-verb-PMkDmAEf
  2. (transitive, slang) To destroy completely or kill with explosives. Tags: slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-bomb_out-en-verb-FyzMlaIc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (out): 38 62

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bomb out meaning in English (2.6kB)

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