blitz

Substantiv

1. 1

   A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the Blitz.

2. 2

   A swift and overwhelming attack or effort.

   We embarked on a publicity blitz, putting posters and flyers all around town.

   Ultimately, though, Liverpool had inflicted a grievous result in the first leg when they scored three times in a 19-minute blitz and, importantly, did not concede an away goal.

   He [Yoshihide Suga] seems to be counting on a media blitz with feel-good effects around the Games to improve his sagging popularity.

   Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules.

3. 3

   A play in which additional defenders beyond the defensive linemen rush the passer.

4. 4

   The act of blending or puréeing food using a blender or processor.

5. 5

   An occurrence in which large numbers of fish, typically striped bass or bluefish, feed on a school of baitfish, typically one in which the occurrence can be seen from the surface.

6. 6

   Variante von blitz chessEllipsis of blitz chess.

   What I had played was chess. Specially, I knocked out some 2,000 games of speed (or "blitz") chess in the two months leading up to the tournament. In fact, I played so much that I'm currently in the top half-percent of more than 1.3 million of blitz players at an online chess competition site.

   In order to avoid misunderstanding, I must note that I object to the attempts to displace normal chess with fast play, not rapid or blitz in general. I love them both, and, if I were to choose which to play, classic or rapid, I would choose rapid.

Verb

1. 1

   To attack quickly or suddenly, as by an air raid or similar action.

   So the question remains — what to do with ignorance, which I must presume is deliberate, as in this media-blitzed era it is not possible to be truly ignorant after age 12.

2. 2

   To perform a blitz.

   The Washington High defense almost always blitzes on third down.

3. 3

   To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender.

   To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in the food processor before adding the parsley and breadcrumbs.

4. 4

   umgangssprachlichTo do something quickly or in one session.

Formen

Plural

blitzes

Präteritum

blitzed

Partizip II

blitzed

Partizip I

blitzing

3. Person Singular

blitzes