firebombing

English

Verb

firebombing

  1. present participle and gerund of firebomb

Noun

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[1]:
      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[2]:
      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.
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