bombsite

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bombsite

Sounds like bombsight

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From bomb + site.

noun bombsites

A place where a bomb has exploded. Postwar London remained pockmarked with bombsites for many years.
colloquial A very messy place. All around the neatly arranged victim, the sitting room was a bombsite. Ornaments had been sent tumbling from the shelves , and the ground was littered with the debris of shattered porcelain animals. In the foreground of the photograph were the splintered remains of a pink poodle barometer promising

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@misc{bombsite_2026,
  title = {bombsite},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bombsite},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}