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incendiary bomb

n. a bomb that is designed to start fires; are most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) [syn: incendiary, firebomb]

Usage examples of "incendiary bomb".

An incendiary bomb in a paint shop, the fire and explosion touching off a row of apartment houses.

Must be some kind of new-fangled high-power incendiary bomb to melt steel down like butter.

His left hand snatched an incendiary bomb from the carrier on his right hip which balanced the frame charges.

Two weeks later the penthouse was destroyed by an incendiary bomb.

The aerial assault would level Houston in a single wave-the devastation of the heavy bombers completed by the tens of thousands of incendiary bomb-lets dropped by nearly a hundred Clark heavy-lift heliĀ­.

But the magnesium in the accessories and crankcase on number-three engine flared like an incendiary bomb, burning through its mounts and wing spar.

It had been stripped, and someone had tried to bum what was left with an incendiary bomb - the smoke attracted a Forest Service ranger, which is how we got our hands on it so quickly.

I had the impression that if I could have persuaded the two girls to leave the room with the crowded shelves while I lobbed an incendiary bomb through the doorway a few hundred thousand citizens of Warsaw would be better off.

There was no time to build a fancy incendiary bomb, so he spun off the big refueling cap to the fuel tank, found several oily rags used to clean the engine fittings and quickly knotted them together.

You have absolutely no way of telling whether that innocuous stranger over there is about to haul out a weapon and attack you, or blow a disease your way, or explode an incendiary bomb in your disposall tube.

But he left an incendiary bomb under Jack's house, and the firemen who vainly fought the blaze it started discovered the helplessness and the sufferings of the people next door.

Terrorists of the World Liberation Movement had struck at three separate places across the world during the previous twenty-four hours: A food-processing plant in Morocco had been gutted by an incendiary bomb.