Dictionary Entry
To destroy with an explosion.
In a Sentence
“The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. explodingshells explodingbombs explodingexploding without
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “exploding”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The whimsical, various fire, in the rhymes and ideas of men,
Buried in books for an age, exploding and writhing again,
And blown a red wind round the world, consuming the lies in its mirth,
Read full poem →Two-thirds of the way through, several young miners were exploding
giant powder. As I approached I saw another was loading his pistol with
Read full poem →t-h-t!_ of the rifle-balls,
I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the
great shells shrieking as they pass,