Firebombingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

firebombing (plural firebombings)

1. An attack with a firebomb.
   • 1984 December 29, Luma Nichol, “Fighting Fire With Ire”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 4:

     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.

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

     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.

   • 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:

     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.