What is the difference between a "bombing" and a "bombing spree"?
What does the word "spree" add to the meaning?
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Adding the word spree here means that it's not just a one-off bombing but it's like a series of bombings. The bomber is going crazy and is bombing places one after the other. This word is used often in the corporate world when a businessman is buying or acquiring new businesses. We say he is on a shopping spree.
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a period of excessive or unrestrained activity ... in this case, a series of bombings
New Oxford American Dictionary
spree | spri |
noun
a spell or sustained period of unrestrained activity of a particular kind: he went on a six-month crime spree | a shopping spree.
Collins Online Dictionary
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/spree
countable noun [usually noun NOUN]
If you spend a period of time doing something in an excessive way, you can say that you are going on a particular kind of spree.
Some Americans went on a spending spree in December to beat the new tax.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/spree
a short period of time when you do a lot of one activity, especially spending money or drinking alcohol
on a spree
They went on a drinking spree.
a shopping spree
Examples from the Corpus
spree
• Then, against the background of bitter, violent parental quarrels, Chester began a spree of delinquency.
• Some stores were bright on reports of an eleventh-hour Christmas buying spree.
• He had been sentenced after going on a two-month crime spree.
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