blitzing

verb

present participle of blitz
as in bombing
to use bombs or artillery against in 1940 and 1941 the German air force blitzed London night after horrible night

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Recent Examples of blitzing And the defense couldn’t generate pressure without blitzing last year. — Austin Mock, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 The defensive line produced little pressure, requiring lots of blitzing. — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026 But on 2nd and 10 from the Minnesota 40-yard line, Dart took a crushing 8-yard sack from blitzing Vikings safety Jay Ward that shook New York’s quarterback up. — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026 The Chiefs ranked 17th in overall pressure percentage in 2025, but that’s despite blitzing at the third-highest rate in the league. — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 15 Aug. 2026 With Green draped all over him, spearheading the Warriors’ blitzing defensive attack, Leonard was held scoreless for the first 11 minutes and 43 seconds of the fourth quarter, even as the Clippers force-fed him the ball down the stretch. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026 Edwards has seen a blitzing Jokic in pick and roll coverage thousands of times. — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2026 Fooda is blitzing transportation stations across the city with outdoor messages touting the benefits of bringing lunch from Chicago restaurants such as Beatrix Market, Lexington Betty Smokehouse and Happy Lobster to the office. — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blitzing
  1. bombing
  2. attacking
  3. battering
  4. bombarding
Verb
  • The status of its nuclear program, degraded by bombing strikes in 2025, hasn't changed.
    — Susan Page, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Prabowo vowed the government would continue supporting firefighting operations, including through the deployment of additional water-bombing helicopters and oxygen supplies for firefighters.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of bombing
Verb
  • Generally, these hunters do not start attacking cells unless there is a reason to do so, such as inflammation, a key marker of infection.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • For example, Way of the Sword rewards defensive play in the form of Issen, powerful counterattacks that are triggered by attacking before an enemy strikes.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of attacking
Verb
  • Her boyfriend was never charged, though he was sentenced to probation for battering a police officer about five weeks after Danielle was killed.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Across the country in Hawaii, Hurricane Lala grazed the state over the weekend, battering the islands with heavy rains and winds, but did not make landfall.
    — Peter Weber, TheWeek, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of battering
Verb
  • Data centers are shifting from the training of AI models — a stage that involves bombarding them with data — to a phase known as inference.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • That was left to the local alternative outlets, who'd start bombarding everyone at our paper to find out who was let go.
    — Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of bombarding

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“Blitzing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blitzing. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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