[+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples. 2. : lacking any feeling â If a part of your body (such as a foot or leg) is asleep, it is not able to feel anything for a brief time, usually because you have kept it in an awkward position for too long.
The US was justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan already killed over 2,000 people in the Pearl Harbor bombings. We had done nothing to provoke them, unless you count our cutting off trade with Japan, limiting their oil supply.
Roy: After the bloody battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the death toll on both sides was high, and the countriesâ negative view of one other became almost unbridgeable, says J Samuel Walker in Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and The Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan.ltimately, the atomic bombs did what they were designed to do. They created such a high level of devastation that the Japanese felt they had no option but to surrender unconditionally to the United States, hence resulting in US victory and the end of the Second World War.