explosion
noun/ɪkˈspləʊʒn/
Word Family
- explode verb
- explosion noun
- explosive adjective noun
- unexploded adjective
Слово англійською: explosion
Переклад explosion українською: вибух
Детальний опис
- [countable, uncountable] the sudden violent bursting and loud noise of something such as a bomb exploding; the act of deliberately causing something to explode
- a bomb/nuclear/gas explosion
- There were two loud explosions and then the building burst into flames.
- a huge/massive explosion
- Bomb Squad officers carried out a controlled explosion of the device.
- Some witnesses said they heard an explosion before the plane hit the ground.
- The accused denies conspiring to cause an explosion.
- in an explosion 300 people were injured in the explosion.
- explosion of something a spectacular explosion of fireworks
- [countable] a large, sudden or rapid increase in the amount or number of something
- a population explosion
- explosion of something an explosion of interest in learning Japanese
- explosion in something an explosion in oil prices
- [countable] (formal) a sudden, violent expression of emotion, especially anger synonym outburst
- Do you know what brought on that explosion?
- Demonstrators clashed with riot police in an explosion of anger at live animal exports.
- The shock waves of this political explosion engulfed the whole of Europe.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin explosio(n-) ‘scornful rejection’, from the verb explodere ‘drive out by clapping, hiss off the stage’, from ex- ‘out’ + plaudere ‘to clap’.