"carpet-bomb" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "carpet-bombing",
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    {
      "form": "carpet-bombed",
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      "form": "carpet-bombed",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1946, The Seventh United States Army in France and Germany, 1944-1945, United States Army, page 700",
          "text": "The 42nd Bombardment Wing would carpet-bomb defenses facing Seventh Army. XII Tactical Air Command, of which Brigadier General Glenn O. Barcus had recently become chief.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Wolfgang Schneider, Tigers in Normandy, page 167",
          "text": "Heavy bombers of the British Bomber Command carpet-bombed the positions of the 276. Infanterie-Division four times.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Legend of Pradeep Mathew: A Novel",
          "text": "To win wars you need to carpet-bomb civilians. And to get away with carpet-bombing civilians.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Gavin McInnes, How to Piss in Public: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, page 77",
          "text": "There was nothing to do but fuck lazy sluts so I carpet-bombed the city with my dick.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Alternative spelling of carpet bomb"
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  "word": "carpet-bomb"
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      "form": "carpet-bombs",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "carpet-bombing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carpet-bombed",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "carpet-bombed",
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          "ref": "1946, The Seventh United States Army in France and Germany, 1944-1945, United States Army, page 700",
          "text": "The 42nd Bombardment Wing would carpet-bomb defenses facing Seventh Army. XII Tactical Air Command, of which Brigadier General Glenn O. Barcus had recently become chief.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Wolfgang Schneider, Tigers in Normandy, page 167",
          "text": "Heavy bombers of the British Bomber Command carpet-bombed the positions of the 276. Infanterie-Division four times.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Legend of Pradeep Mathew: A Novel",
          "text": "To win wars you need to carpet-bomb civilians. And to get away with carpet-bombing civilians.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Gavin McInnes, How to Piss in Public: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, page 77",
          "text": "There was nothing to do but fuck lazy sluts so I carpet-bombed the city with my dick.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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