Coventrate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To devastate by heavy bombing. transitive

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coventrize

Etymology

From Coventry + -ate (verb-forming suffix), following German coventrieren. Coventry, England, was devastated by German firebombing in November 1940, during World War II.

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