Usually means: Indiscriminate aerial bombing over area.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. carpet-bombing, carpet bombing: Merriam-Webster
  2. carpet bombing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. carpet bombing: Vocabulary.com
  4. carpet-bombing: Wordnik
  5. carpet bombing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. carpet bombing: Wiktionary
  7. carpet-bombing, carpet bombing: Dictionary.com
  8. Carpet bombing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. carpet bombing: Rhymezone
  10. carpet bombing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. carpet bombing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. carpet-bombing, carpet bombing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carpet-bombing, carpet bombing: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carpet bombing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carpet bombing)

▸ noun:  Large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land.

Similar:
train bombing, bombarding, superbombardment, bombing, cluster bomb, cobombardment, saturation, blockbuster, parabombing, smart bomb, more...

Opposite:
precision bombing, targeted bombing, surgical bombing

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Similar:
train bombing, bombarding, superbombardment, bombing, cluster bomb, cobombardment, saturation, blockbuster, parabombing, smart bomb, more...

Opposite:
precision bombing, targeted bombing, surgical bombing



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