Definitions for explosion

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explosion ex·plo·sion

Spelling: [ik-sploh-zhuh n]

IPA: /ɪkˈsploʊ ʒən/

Explosion is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 368 anagrams from letters in explosion (eilnoopsx).

Definitions for explosion

noun

1. an act or instance of exploding; a violent expansion or bursting with noise, as of gunpowder or a boiler (opposed to implosion).
2. the noise itself:
3. a violent outburst, as of laughter or anger.
4. a sudden, rapid, or great increase:
5. the burning of the mixture of fuel and air in an internal-combustion engine.
6. Phonetics. plosion.

Origin of explosion

1615-25; Latin explōsiōn- (stem of explōsiō), equivalent to explōs(us) driven off by clapping (past participle of explōdere to explode) + -iōn-

Examples for explosion

He must 'a' got caught in an explosion of freckles sometime.

It fell slowly, with a crash that was like a faint echo of the explosion.

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

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

Last of all, there was the explosion, the carrying off of the coin in its canvas sacks to the horses.

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.

This explosion of the doctor's meant that he invited and awaited some contradiction.

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

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

But the way they'll find it out will be in an explosion that will wipe them out.