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explosion
/ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/
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What does explosion mean?
noun
- A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.
- The sound of an explosion.
- A sudden, uncontrolled or rapid increase, expansion, or bursting out.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/
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A violent explosion shook the air, and a spout of water, steam, mud, and shattered metal shot far up into the sky.
And then suddenly, as in an explosion, the horrible truth burst over him, and he reeled and staggered back with a scream.
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It buries itself to a certain depth before bursting so that the forces of the explosion become somewhat muffled as it were.
A great shell crashed into the magazine of the fort, and the explosion hurled masses of the concrete walls an incredible distance.
Heaton reports a case in which, by an explosion, a tamping-iron was driven through the chin of a man into the cerebrum.