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explosion

/ik-sploh-zhuhn/US // ɪkˈsploʊ ʒən //UK // (ɪkˈspləʊʒən) //

爆炸,爆炸声,爆炸事件,爆发

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of exploding; a violent expansion or bursting with noise, as of gunpowder or a boiler.
    • : the noise itself: The loud explosion woke them.
    • : a violent outburst, as of laughter or anger.
    • : a sudden, rapid, or great increase: a population explosion.
    • : the burning of the mixture of fuel and air in an internal-combustion engine.
    • : Phonetics. plosion.

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Examples

  • Knowing the nova rate is vital for determining how much these explosions have contributed to the galaxy’s chemical makeup by creating new elements.

  • Experts worry Super Bowl could trigger coronavirus explosion.

  • Experts worry Super Bowl parties could trigger coronavirus explosion.

  • Kling was one of the first county workers to arrive at the scene of a massive explosion and fire at a Silver Spring apartment complex in August 2016.

  • Ending the Fairness Doctrine was one key factor leading to an explosion of right-wing radio programming in the 1990s — though sometimes an overstated one.

  • Pleasure shoots magically in every direction like an explosion of sparks.

  • At least two people were injured in the explosion but no fatalities have been reported.

  • But since that explosion of popularity, Angry Birds has become about everything else.

  • Even a relatively small 250-pound bomb could kill or injure friendly troops who are within 650 feet of the explosion.

  • Now is hardly the time to be doing anything on the so-called peace process other than trying to avoid an explosion on the ground.

  • Every light in the hall was ablaze; every lamp turned as high as it could be without smoking the chimney or threatening explosion.

  • And when Lessard flung out that last unthinkable accusation, the explosion came.

  • Ribsy snapped at it, and swallowed it, and the next instant disappeared with a tremendous explosion in a great cloud of smoke.

  • An explosion took place in the Blackheath coal mines, Virginia; by which of the twenty-three workmen only one escaped death.

  • The Turks fired a mine under Quinn's Post and then rushed a section of the defence isolated by the explosion.

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