Bomb: Definition and part of speech

Bomb

  1. v. i. To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
  2. n. A great noise; a hollow sound.
  3. n. A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
  4. n. A bomb ketch.
  5. v. t. To bombard.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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