coventrate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

coventrate (third-person singular simple present coventrates, present participle coventrating, simple past and past participle coventrated)

1. (transitive) To devastate by heavy bombing.

Derived terms

• coventrating
• coventration

Translations

devastate by heavy bombing

• German: coventrieren
• Italian: coventrizzare (it)
• Polish: kowentrykacja f

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “coventrate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.