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bomb shelter

noun

  1. a room or area, usually underground, especially reinforced against the effects of bombs, used as a shelter during an air raid.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bomb shelter1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Estonia, for example, is introducing a new law that makes it mandatory for all new office and apartment blocks of a certain size to include bunkers or bomb shelters.

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Mr Levy was taken hostage and Eynav's body was found in a bomb shelter where the couple had been hiding.

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The couple, whose son Almog is now three years old, fled to a roadside bomb shelter after Hamas gunmen attacked.

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The amateur singer was attending with friends and says she survived by hiding under dead bodies inside a bomb shelter for eight hours.

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Sirens leave the women debating whether to flee to a bomb shelter.

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