Crossword clues for bombproof
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bombproof \Bomb"proof`\, a. Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n. A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.
Wiktionary
Sufficiently strong to resist the effects of a blast from a bom
n. An air-raid shelter, a structure designed to give protection against air raids and bombs.
WordNet
adj. able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells; "bombproof shelter" [syn: shellproof]
n. a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids [syn: bomb shelter, air-raid shelter]
Usage examples of "bombproof".
So Van slithered around Washington in a bombproof stretch limousine with smoked windows, a vehicle often used by the Secretary of State.
All that dirty work on computer security, stuck inside some bombproof vault.
The big man slammed shut the rear door and Hamzah felt, rather than heard, the solidness of bombproof steel and a thud as heavy locks slid into place.
In the garden, left over from the war, is a snake-infested bombproof bunker which is accessed through a heavy metal door in the floor in my room.
He dove into a deep bombproof, a timber-reinforced hole dug into the front wall of the trench.
Like a general directing the massacre of an army from a bombproof shelter.
He surrenders his post to a comrade, and crawls down into his bombproof dugout almost reluctantly, for the long day of inactive waiting has commenced.
There was a bombproof wall about a foot thick right in front of the bedroom window, and the rocket hit right at the base of that.
Morning Star satellite was hidden in the lowest level of the palace, below even the bombproof bunker that had just hosted the ill-fated summit meeting.
About a hundred yards from the cenote was a small but elaborate stone pyramid, closely guarded by men with rifles, which had been erected over the bombproof shelter of the American millionaire, Owens.
Peabody stepped with Eve and a uniformed guard into a bombproof elevator.
After zigging through a bombproof furlong of roof, he was dropping into a large twilit cave.
Owing to its exposed and dangerous character very formidable bombproofs have been built at this point of the line.
Naturally since then we have had to come back into the bombproofs, where deep underground, we live in holes like those that I remember pictured in our old natural histories, that show a gopher, an owl and a snake all living happily together in the same burrow.
Men and dogs labored to bring the ammunition forward to the siege guns from the bombproofs set behind the main line, along pathways sunk into the ground with protective berms on either side.