Meaning

1 senses

  1. To devastate by heavy bombing.

    coventrieren

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
devastate by heavy bombing:

Origin

From Coventry + -ate (verb-forming suffix), following German coventrieren. Coventry, Engla

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

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Forms

coventrates, coventrating, coventrated, coventrated
Base formcoventrate · to coventrate
3rd person singularcoventrates
Present participlecoventrating
Past simplecoventrated
Past participlecoventrated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycoventrate
he, she, itcoventrates

Past simpleLesson

all personscoventrated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave coventrated
he, she, ithas coventrated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill coventrate

Synonyms

1 synonyms
coventrize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
covecovenantcoverA1coverageC1

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