dive-bomb
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dive-bomb
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v. [tr.]
bomb (a target) while diving steeply downward in an aircraft:
news that kamikazes had dive-bombed a U.S. destroyer.
∎
(of a bird or flying insect) attack (something) by swooping down on it:
the crow folded its wings and dive-bombed the vulture.
DERIVATIVES:
dive-bomb·er
n.
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