bomb site

1. an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs

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Noun

bomb site - an area in a town that has been devastated by bombs; "they opened a parking lot on the bomb site"

land site, site - the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"

Translations

bomb site

n → luogo bombardato

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Frankfurt Airport, which handles some 68 million passengers each year, lies about 14km east of the bomb site.

WW2 bomb disposal to cause delays at Frankfurt Airport on Sunday

On either side of Snow Hill Station these locations have been used as 'bomb site' car parks throughout my working life.

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BBC journalist Usman Zahid, who was a part of the delegation, said that the bomb site was located on a difficult hilly terrain and it took an hour-and-a-half-long trek to access it.

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With the bomb site falling within the jurisdiction of the Pishtakhara police station, a large number of police officers rushed to the site immediately after the blast and cordoned off the area.

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Bute Street in Cardiff Bay has been converted into a World War Two bomb site, complete with bombed-out houses and burnedout buildings.

Butetown 'bomb' heard miles away; NEWS IN BRIEF

Eventually something did, and building work started but the curse continued and the building work was contracted to Carillion who then went bust and the place remains a building site, although this is marginally better than the bomb site that it was.

A wart, a backside & a 2nd rate town

Eventually something did, and building work started but the curse continued and the building work was contracted to Carillion, who then went bust and the place remains a building site, although this is marginally better than the bomb site that it was.

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There's litter everywhere, the place resembles a bomb site."

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The security personnel recovered another bomb near the bomb site which was defused by BDS.

Two shops destroyed in Bajaur cloth market blast

The two-acre site, described as a "bomb site" by Sterling's managing director James Howarth, is bounded by Lionel Street and Livery Street and sits next to Snow Hill station as well as being a very short walk from the city's main business district around Colmore Row.

New PS55m flats vision for bomb site car park

"Cadw have turned the entrance to the castle and the car park into a bomb site for nearly two years.

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