"dirty bomb" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. A device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material, designed to spread radiation over a wide area. Categories (topical): Explosives, Nuclear warfare, Radioactivity, Weapons Synonyms: radiological dispersal device, RDD, radiological bomb Translations (device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material): قُنْبُلَة قَذِرَة (qunbula qaḏira) [feminine] (Arabic), бру́дная бо́мба (brúdnaja bómba) [feminine] (Belarusian), мръ́сна бо́мба (mrǎ́sna bómba) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 髒彈 /脏弹 (zāngdàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 骯髒炸彈 /肮脏炸弹 (āngzāng zhàdàn) (Chinese Mandarin), špinavá bomba [feminine] (Czech), beskidt bombe [common-gender] (Danish), vuile bom [feminine] (Dutch), räpane pomm (Estonian), likainen pommi (Finnish), bombe sale [feminine] (French), schmutzige Bombe [feminine] (German), βρώμικη βόμβα (vrómiki vómva) [feminine] (Greek), פְּצָצָה מְלֻכְלֶכֶת (ptsatsá melukhlékhet) [feminine] (Hebrew), piszkos bomba (Hungarian), buama salach [masculine] (Irish), bomba sporca [feminine] (Italian), 汚い爆弾 (kitanai bakudan) (alt: きたないばくだん) (Japanese), ダーティー・ボム (dātī-bomu) (Japanese), 더러운 폭탄 (deoreoun poktan) (Korean), 더티밤 (deotibam) (Korean), netīrā bumba [feminine] (Latvian), nešvari bomba [feminine] (Lithuanian), валкана бомба (valkana bomba) [feminine] (Macedonian), skitten bombe [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), بمب کثیف (bomb-e kasif) (Persian), brudna bomba [feminine] (Polish), bomba suja [feminine] (Portuguese), bomba murdară [feminine] (Romanian), гря́зная бо́мба (grjáznaja bómba) [feminine] (Russian), прљава бомба [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), prljava bomba [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), špinavá bomba [feminine] (Slovak), umazana bomba [feminine] (Slovene), bomba sucia [feminine] (Spanish), radioaktiv bomb [common-gender] (Swedish), smutsig bomb [common-gender] (Swedish), брудна́ бо́мба (brudná bómba) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. A nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or by design. Categories (topical): Radioactivity Synonyms: cobalt bomb, salted bomb Translations (nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design): бру́дная бо́мба (brúdnaja bómba) [feminine] (Belarusian), beskidt bombe [common-gender] (Danish), likainen pommi (Finnish), schmutzige Bombe [feminine] (German), гря́зная бо́мба (grjáznaja bómba) [feminine] (Russian), smutsig bomb [common-gender] (Swedish), брудна́ бо́мба (brudná bómba) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-dirty_bomb-en-noun-wbS3yBaP Disambiguation of Radioactivity: 47 53 Disambiguation of 'nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design': 16 84

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      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "špinavá bomba"
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      "code": "da",
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      "word": "beskidt bombe"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "vuile bom"
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    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "räpane pomm"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "likainen pommi"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "bombe sale"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "schmutzige Bombe"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "βρώμικη βόμβα"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ptsatsá melukhlékhet",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "piszkos bomba"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
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      "word": "bomba sporca"
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      "alt": "きたないばくだん",
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      "roman": "kitanai bakudan",
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      "word": "汚い爆弾"
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      "word": "skitten bombe"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bomb-e kasif",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "بمب کثیف"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "brudna bomba"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "bomba suja"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "bomba murdară"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grjáznaja bómba",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "гря́зная бо́мба"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "прљава бомба"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
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      "word": "prljava bomba"
    },
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "špinavá bomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "umazana bomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bomba sucia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "radioaktiv bomb"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "smutsig bomb"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "brudná bómba",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "брудна́ бо́мба"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "brúdnaja bómba",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бру́дная бо́мба"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "beskidt bombe"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "word": "likainen pommi"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "schmutzige Bombe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grjáznaja bómba",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гря́зная бо́мба"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "smutsig bomb"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "brudná bómba",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "брудна́ бо́мба"
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}

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