Collocations for bomb - noun

big, huge, large, massive | small | cluster, fire, high explosive, incendiary, mortar, nail, petrol, smoke | atom/atomic, hydrogen, neutron, nuclear | bouncing, flying | terrorist | home-made | unexploded | stray
Their truck was hit by a stray bomb.

dummy, fake
a practice flight with dummy bombs

car | letter, parcel | time
(figurative) He described global warming as ‘an environmental time bomb ticking away’.

place, plant, put
Police suspect terrorists planted the bomb.

carry
The plane had been adapted to carry bombs.

drop, release
Enemy planes dropped bombs along the railway line.

defuse | detonate, explode, set off | build, construct, develop (These verbs are only used about countries.)
India started to build a nuclear bomb.

make
He used a clock to make a home-made bomb.

fall, rain (down)
Eighty people died when bombs rained down on the city''s crowded streets.

hit sth | detonate, explode, go off | blow sb/sth to pieces, blow sth up, destroy sth, kill sb, rip through sth
Fifteen people were blown to pieces by the car bomb. | A terrorist bomb ripped through the town''s packed shopping centre.

be ticking away

attack, blast, explosion | alert, scare, threat, warning | hoax | disposal, squad | shelter | crater
The land was scarred with bomb craters.

damage | site | victim | suspect | test
the fallout from atomic bomb tests