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Answer for the clue "Bradshaw-to-Swann thriller ", 4 letters:
bomb

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Word definitions for bomb in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from French bombe , from Italian bomba , probably from Latin bombus "a deep, hollow noise; a buzzing or booming sound," from Greek bombos "deep and hollow sound," echoic. Originally of mortar shells, etc.; modern sense of "explosive device placed ...

Usage examples of bomb.

Except for the annoyance of the bombs, the gunners of the forts had it much their own way until the broadsides of the Pensacola, which showed eleven heavy guns on either side, drew up abreast of them.

In the example of the terrorist bomb, we learned that gravitational forces are indistinguishable from accelerated motion.

If the fan-belt continued a full revolution after the motor stopped, it would still acuate the timing-mechanism, and cause the bomb to explode.

They were declared to be aerial torpedo-boats, and the aeronaut was supposed to swoop close to his antagonist and cast his bombs as he whirled past.

A gang of men, pretending to be agitators, bomb or burn every, factory and mine which attempts to start operations, and terrorize all men who want to go back to work.

They now came up over the big dirigible and tried to plant the last two bombs on her broad back, but the Bullet jerked so badly due to the lost aileron, that the bombs widely missed their marks.

Anyway, Mr Sweet, forget Digby going to your crew even if he is the best bomb aimer in the Squadron.

He had above-average night vision and usually saw pinpoints before the bomb aimer saw them.

Missing the bomb aimer by only an inch, it exploded on contact with the front turrent mounting-ring.

The bomb aimer waited for the largest one - the hospital annex - left, left, steady.

After the bomb aimer went, a gale of great intensity blew through the open hatch into the cockpit.

A bomb aimer was sick in the bar after drinking whisky mixed with rum.

I always believed that no one else except the bomb aimer and myself got out.

Pain, loss of blood and bouts of unconsciousness started to affect the pilot, but the Stirling was kept flying, with the help first of the navigator and then of the bomb aimer, who had himself been stunned in the dive.

Read, ordered four of the crew to bale out over Germany in case Sweden could not be reached, keeping just the bomb aimer to help him cross the Baltic and crash-land near the Swedish town of Ystad.