Firebombing

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An attack with a firebomb.

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of firebomb form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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incendiaryincendiary bombincendiary bomb

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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."

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