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1. Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got bombed in the bar downstairs";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, out of it [Brit], trolleyed [Brit], mullered [Brit], tanked up, blitzed, stinko, fried [N. Amer], lit, steaming, bladdered [Brit], liquored up [N. Amer], legless [Brit], trashed, stewed, stonkered [Austral, NZ], paralytic [Brit], three sheets to the wind, pickled, wasted, juiced [N. Amer], hammered, bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]

1. Throw bombs at or attack with bombs
   "The Americans bombed Dresden";
   - bombard
    
2. Be unsuccessful in a test, get lower than the passing grade
   "She studied hard but bombed nevertheless";
   - fail, flunk, flush it
    
3. [Brit] Move quickly and violently
   "The car bombed down the street";
   - tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck, scream
    
4. Fail badly
   "How many contracting businesses will bomb this year?";
   - tank [N. Amer], crash and burn

See also: drunk, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated

Type of: assail, attack, belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurry, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it, travel rapidly, zip

Encyclopedia: Bombed