Definitions for dynamite

dynamite dy·na·mite

Spelling: [dahy-nuh-mahyt]
IPA: /ˈdaɪ nəˌmaɪt/

Dynamite is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 354 anagrams from letters in dynamite (adeimnty).

Definitions for dynamite

noun

  1. a high explosive, originally consisting of nitroglycerin mixed with an absorbent substance, now with ammonium nitrate usually replacing the nitroglycerin.
  2. any person or thing having a spectacular effect.

adjective

  1. Informal. creating a spectacular or optimum effect; great; topnotch:

verb (used with object)

  1. to blow up, shatter, or destroy with dynamite:
  2. to mine or charge with dynamite.

Origin of dynamite

1867; Swedish dynamit, introduced by A. B. Nobel, its inventor; see dyna(m)-, -ite1

Examples for dynamite

One strip, Foolish Grandpa and Sour Henry, shows Grandpa being hit on the head by a sandbag and blown up by dynamite.

It is said that dynamite must have been used, and that in a very large quantity.

The railway will know where to go for dynamite should we get short at any time.

But the poem set off tiny sticks of dynamite behind my eyes.

None of your dynamite pudding that,—as green as grass and as sour as vinegar.

He would turn up at private views with distress flares and sticks of dynamite and stuff.

His hands had been blown away by a dynamite cartridge while fishing in some lagoon.

“Coulda been a dynamite gig, too, man,” Berry Oakley laments.

He was tackling a delicate job—like juggling a car-load of dynamite.

The state he lived in licensed purchasers of dynamite and other incendiaries only after a background check.

Word Value for dynamite
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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