Bombproof: alternatives and connections

Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of a…

To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.

Rent open by an explosive.

To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or f…

A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin.

A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach.

To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.

To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an i…

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…

To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

(physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a r…

An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.

To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, t…

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.

Explosive.