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Bombing vs Shelling - What's the difference?

bombing | shelling |

As verbs the difference between shelling and bombing

is that shelling is present participle of lang=en while bombing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between shelling and bombing

is that shelling is an artillery bombardment while bombing is the action of dropping bombs from the air.

bombing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of dropping bombs from the air.
  • The action of placing and detonating bombs.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    shelling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • An artillery bombardment
  • The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
  • (uncountable) grain from which the husk has been removed
  • (topology)