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Explode

To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

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Broader term 15

Articulate 76% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Burst 76% connected

of Burst

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Condemn 76% connected

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.

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Confute 76% connected

To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

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Destroy 76% connected

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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Disprove 76% connected

To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

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Enounce 76% connected

To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

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Enunciate 76% connected

To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.

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Increase 76% connected

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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Pronounce 76% connected

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…

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React 76% connected

To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

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Respond 76% connected

To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

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Ruin 76% connected

The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Manner of action 7

Belch 76% connected

To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.

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Crump 76% connected

Crooked; bent.

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Detonate 76% connected

To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.

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Dynamite 76% connected

An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitrogly…

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Erupt 76% connected

To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.

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Extravasate 76% connected

To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.

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Fulminate 76% connected

To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

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Derivationally related 6

Charge 74% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Charge 74% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Detonation 74% connected

An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.

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Detonation 74% connected

An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.

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Explosion 74% connected

The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowd…

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Explosion 74% connected

The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowd…

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Causes 1

Detonate 72% connected

To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.

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Entails 1

Hiss 72% connected

To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a…

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Synonym 2

Burst 92% connected

of Burst

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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Detonate 92% connected

To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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