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/ɪksplˈoʊsɪv/ Listen

adjective

Explosive adj. Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.

noun

Explosive n.

An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, TNT, dynamite, or nitro-glycerine.

A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice.

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Etymology of 'Explosive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Explosive" Quotes from Famous Books

... house and remained all night with us. About three o'clock in the morning there was an explosion outside, and when we dressed and ran out we found one of the chicken houses blown to flinders by dynamite or some other explosive. About one ...

— The Rover Boys in the Air - From College Campus to the Clouds • Edward Stratemeyer

... German chemist, who in his laboratory compounds a new explosive, has more effect upon the wars of the modern peoples than ten thousand soldierly legs and arms; and the man who invents one new labour-saving machine may, through the cerebration of a few days, have performed the labour it would otherwise have taken hundreds ...

— Woman and Labour • Olive Schreiner

... the billows of black smoke? Gone where the railroad sent the stage-coach, electricity sent the candle and horse-drawn street-cars, serum sent diphtheria, the knife sent the appendix, and rifled cannon and explosive shells sent the wooden walls of old ...

— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer

... came to me with a message of relief, yet it justified my worse fears. She was here, and the place was about to be blasted by some titanic explosive of the Croen science creation! Her words were indistinct, but the tone was almost mocking, and I thought I ...

— Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell

... I take back nothing of what is written in these papers concerning the Gaelic revival. In a country governed against the will of its people, forces that, under normal and healthy conditions, would be purely beneficent, may easily grow explosive and disruptive. Yet I have not changed my mind on a critical question which led me to sever my connection with the work of the Gaelic League. When that body decided to rely on compulsion rather than persuasion, it took the wrong road, if its object was to endear the Irish language ...

— Irish Books and Irish People • Stephen Gwynn

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