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DYNAMITE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dynamite" is a kind of...):

explosive compound (a compound that is explosive)

Meronyms (substance of "dynamite"):

glyceryl trinitrate; nitroglycerin; nitroglycerine; Nitrospan; Nitrostat; trinitroglycerin (a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dynamite"):

gelignite; gelly (a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate)

Derivation:

dynamite (blow up with dynamite)

dynamitist (a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blow up with dynamite

Example:

The rock was dynamited

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "dynamite" is one way to...):

blow up; detonate; explode; set off (cause to burst with a violent release of energy)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

dynamite (an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp)

dynamiter (a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause)

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