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Definition of Explodes
1. explode [v] - See also: explode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Explodes
Literary usage of Explodes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"When heated, it explodes almost as violently as the nitrate. ... It explodes when
heated, struck, or pressed, but not so violently as nitrate of ..."
2. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1914)
"Ja 4 Water front of stove explodes, kills baby, Hamilton, Mont. ... Ja 28 Cat's
electricity explodes gas tank, New London, Ct. Ja 31 Gas leak sought with ..."
3. Meteorological Essays by François Arago, Alexander von Humboldt, Edward Sabine (1855)
"LIGHTNING IN ITS RAPID MARCH IS INFLUENCED BY ACTIONS DEPENDENT ON THE TERRESTRIAL
BODIES NEAR WHICH IT explodes. NOTHING appears to me more suited to show ..."
4. Mind and Hand: Manual Training, the Chief Factor in Education by Charles Henry Ham (1900)
"The hand explodes the errors of the mind, for it inquires, so to speak, by the
act of doing, whether or not a given theorem is demonstra- ..."
5. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, New York (State). Governor, 1801-1804 (George Clinton), Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1904)
"Colonel Weissenfels Expresses a Grievance to G'oremor Clinton, who Promptly
explodes It With an Offer for a Commission. ..."
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