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carpet bomb

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Verb1.carpet bomb - bomb a large area systematically and extensively; "The U.S. decided to carpet bomb Vietnam"
bomb, bombard - throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden"


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This burn-and-build approach to business guarantees that there will be a market for Halliburton's services as long as it has a friend in high places to periodically carpet bomb a country or two.
To the corporate victors go the spoils of Iraq contracts by Huffington, Arianna / Los Angeles Business Journal
This goliath has been taking hits from listeners fighting with their MP3s, but they continue to carpet bomb the desert with Celine Dion, who can take the top of your head off with invisible piercing high notes.
Embedded in my couch. (Unplugged) by Clinton, Kate / The Progressive
With a whole array of weapons--clean bombs, seismic bombs, cluster bombs, carpet bombs, napalm and phosphorous bombs, fragmentation bombs--the US wreaked its vengeance on Vietnam's land and people for year after horrifying year.
Fugitive Days; A Memoir. by Barber, David / Journal of Social History
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