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explosive

/ik-sploh-siv/US // ɪkˈsploʊ sɪv //UK // (ɪkˈspləʊsɪv) //

爆炸性,爆炸性的,爆发性,爆炸

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance.
    • : pertaining to or of the nature of an explosion: explosive violence.
    • : likely to lead to violence or hostility: an explosive issue.
    • : Phonetics. plosive.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an explosive agent or substance, as dynamite.
    • : Phonetics. plosive.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.volatile, dangerous
Forms: explosives

Examples

  • Rage, Bob Woodward’s newest book, was already at the top of Amazon’s bestseller list days before Americans learned about its explosive contents.

  • That’s according to an explosive new whistleblower complaint released by the Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday afternoon.

  • Netflix saw explosive subscriber growth in its first two quarters of this year, mainly attributed to the coronavirus pandemic.

  • When an idle shipment of dangerous explosives burst in Beirut, there were Carrds.

  • Still others have proposed that space became magnetized before all this, during cosmic inflation — the explosive expansion of space that purportedly jump-started the Big Bang itself.

  • Some of the most explosive opportunities could be based around things that the Western world seems reluctant to adopt.

  • And it would let governors show leadership in explosive, highly-publicized cases.

  • As grown-ups without turbo-charged explosive arrows, we can only change the rules through politics.

  • A Shiite stronghold wrapped in a Sunni explosive belt—not exactly a picture of stability.

  • That incident was due to an “equipment” problem (a steel tube ruptured)—resulting in explosive vapors being released and ignited.

  • But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."

  • With an explosive hiss, gray jets of live steam erupted from pipes around the edge of the room.

  • Anything made of iron and containing high explosive and detonator will be welcome.

  • The gasoline used also gave off a gas of highly explosive character and one very likely to escape from leaky tanks or joints.

  • It is often difficult in serious situations to take these explosive monosyllables seriously.