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explosion - a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction |
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detonation,
blowup |
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discharge the act of discharging a gun
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airburst an explosion in the atmosphere
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blast a very long fly ball
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backfire a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
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big bang (cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe
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backfire,
blowback a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
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fragmentation the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes
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inflation the act of filling something with air
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explosion - the act of exploding or bursting; "the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children"; "the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft" |
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burst |
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change of integrity the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something
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detonation the act of detonating an explosive
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fulmination the act of exploding with noise and violence; "his fulminations frightened the horses"
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explosion - a sudden outburst; "an explosion of laughter"; "an explosion of rage" |
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blowup,
ebullition,
effusion,
gush,
outburst flow under pressure
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explosion - a sudden great increase; "the population explosion"; "the information explosion" |
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increase the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary"
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explosion - a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball |
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golf shot,
golf stroke,
swing the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
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explosion - the noise caused by an explosion; "the explosion was heard a mile away" |
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noise incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"
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