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Collocations for bomb - noun

ADJ.

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’.

VERB + BOMB

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.

BOMB + VERB

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

BOMB + NOUN

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

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