bombproof

comparative more bombproof · superlative most bombproof

1. Sufficiently strong to resist the effects of a blast from a bomb.

   bombproof buildings

2. figurativelyinformalVery sturdy; as if built to resist the effects of a blast from a bomb.

   Steve's steel-frame mountain bike is heavy and slow, but it's bombproof.

plural bombproofs

1. An air-raid shelter, a structure designed to give protection against air raids and bombs.

   At night, when the Federal guns slowed their fire, the men created new traverses and bombproofs.

   1994, Stephen R. Wise, Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863, page 160

   2 more examples

   As I waded through the mud to go down into the bombproof, it struck me uneasily that our officers glanced at each other.

   1915, Edward Lyell Fox, Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany

   It mounted a 10-inch Columbiad and two 32-pounders on the sea face, with field guns and other 32-pounders elsewhere. In addition to this armament, it contained two bombproofs.

   2014, Kevin Dougherty, Military Leadership Lessons of the Charleston Campaign, 1861-1865

   Synonyms: air-raid shelter, bomb shelter

present singular third person bombproofs · participle present bombproofing · participle past bombproofed · past bombproofed

1. transitiveTo make resistant to bomb blasts.