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carpet-bomb
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car·pet-bomb (kärpt-bm)
tr. & intr.v. car·pet-bombed, car·pet-bomb·ing, car·pet-bombs
To bomb in a systematic and extensive pattern, so as to devastate a large target area uniformly.

carpet-bombing n.


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The Russian military has carpet-bombed populated areas, massacred civilians, conducted house-to-house sweeps in which searches for weapons and terrorists became a pretext for looting, and allowed soldiers and officers to murder and rape with impunity.
At times it appeared the field was being carpet-bombed with penalty flags, as the emotional nature of the battle between two teams ranked in the top 10 in the state produced a combined total of 20 charged infractions for 233 yards, including 11 penalties which went against COC for 125 yards.
 
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