coventrate

v. 考文垂式轰炸,大规模轰炸, 以轰炸摧毁(城市)

发音

US

词形变化

coventrated coventrates 三单 coventrates coventrating coventrating 现在分词 coventrated 过去式 coventrated 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To devastate by heavy bombing.

    及物

词源

From Coventry + -ate (verb-forming suffix), following German coventrieren. Coventry, England, was devastated by German firebombing in November 1940, during World War II.

来源：wiktionary