superbombardment

plural superbombardments

1. rareA very severe bombardment.

   This superactivity sustains a superbombardment of the respiratory center.

   1946, American Journal of Physiology, Volume 145, American Physiological Society, page 12

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   In the apt expression of Fortune, while the cannon remain silent, a "superbombardment of brains" is going on.

   1966, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, Volume 18, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, page 34

   Maybe our people have recovered somewhat from the sermonic superbombardments they used to get on this subject.

   1972, John Drescher, Gospel Herald (1972: January-June), Mennonite Publishing House, page 74

   Wishing to give his troops a wider experience of an attack against entrenchment, and being desirous of ascertaining the effect of a superbombardment by artillery he delivered an attack on Neuve Chapelle with his First Army.

   2012, Frederick Ernest Whitton, The History of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment - Volume 2, Naval & Military Press, →ISBN, page 120

   The minutes of that conference may never be made public, bue we know that heaven-sent inspiration and belief in the axiom, "if you intend to do a thing, do it well," which ever British school boy writes in his earlies copybook, R.A.F laid plans for the superbombardment of Europe by asking the British aircraft industry to construct four-engined bombers, armed and armored each to carry some eight tons of bombs over a 2000-mile range.

   2015, Keith Ayling, Bombers, Tannenberg Publishing, →ISBN, page 5