Explosive
Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.
A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. [See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã 155-7, 184.]
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Explosive Quotations
To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game.
Tony Dungy
I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
Victoria Abril
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
Yasser Arafat
I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.
Jerry Seinfeld
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.
Dominic Chianese
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
Robert Smithson
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
James Earl Jones
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
Catherine Bell
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Edward P. Morgan
Explosive Translations
explosive in German is brisant
explosive in Norwegian is sprengstoff, eksplosiv
explosive in Spanish is explosivo
explosive in Swedish is explosiv
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