firebombing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of firebomb

plural firebombings

1. An attack with a firebomb.

   A Queens man who faces charges related to five firebombings in the New York City metropolitan area is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation, authorities said late Tuesday.

   2012 January 3, Brian Vitagliano and Susan Candiotti, “Police: Man confesses in New York City firebomb attacks”, in CNN

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   On November 9, anti-abortion crusader Curtis Beseda confessed in U.S. District Court to three successive firebombings that destroyed the Feminist Women's Health Center in Everett, Wash., and to torching a doctor's clinic in nearby Bellingham.

   1984 December 29, Luma Nichol, “Fighting Fire With Ire”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 4

   The horrors Nihei saw that night were the result of Operation Meetinghouse, the deadliest of a series of firebombing air raids on Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces, between February and May 1945.

   2020 March 7, Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, “History’s deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II and you’ve probably never heard of it”, in CNN