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What does Blitz mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Blitz? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (with definite article) The series of air raids launched on various cities in Great Britain by the German air force in 1940-41 during World War II. They were also known as the Baedeker Raids.
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The past fortnight has had the subtle appeal of the Blitz spirit.
The condition was first spotted among survivors of the Blitz in World War II who slept in deck chairs in air-raid shelters.
Were this to happen in London I'm not sure the ' Blitz spirit ' would hold out in quite the same way.
She is perhaps held in deepest affection by the war generation, for whom she was the personification of the Blitz spirit.
But we cannot go on congratulating ourselves for our forbearance, or Blitz spirit or reason in the face of madness.
To be abandoned, especially when he was under attack in the British press for escaping the Blitz, was insupportable.

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