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Bomb

A great noise; a hollow sound.

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Verb group 2

Fail 84% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

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Fail 84% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

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Broader term 11

Arms 76% connected

Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.

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Assail 76% connected

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Bust 76% connected

A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

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Calorimeter 76% connected

An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combinat…

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Fail 76% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fizzle 76% connected

To make a hissing sound.

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Flop 76% connected

To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

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Munition 76% connected

Fortification; stronghold.

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Neglect 76% connected

Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to di…

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Weaponry 76% connected

Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.

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Manner of action 4

Atomize 76% connected

To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray.

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Blast 76% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Shell 76% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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zap 76% connected

To strike or hit suddenly, especially with a burst of energy

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Narrower term 3

Bombshell 76% connected

A bomb. See Bomb, n.

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Grenade 76% connected

A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies.

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Incendiary 76% connected

Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.

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Derivationally related 2

Bombard 74% connected

A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bombard 74% connected

A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.

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Synonym 4

Bombard 92% connected

A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fail 92% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flunk 92% connected

To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Turkey 92% connected

An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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