Synonyms for explosion
ɪkˈsploʊ ʒənex·plo·sion

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1. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

2. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

3. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

4. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

5. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

6. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

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1. explosion, detonation, blowupnoun

   a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction

   Synonyms:
   detonation, outburst, enlargement, gush, plosion, magnification, blowup, effusion, ebullition, burst

2. explosion, burstnoun

   the act of exploding or bursting

   "the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children"; "the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft"

   Synonyms:
   detonation, fusillade, outburst, fit, plosion, blowup, salvo, volley, flare-up, burst

3. explosionnoun

   a sudden great increase

   "the population explosion"; "the information explosion"

   Synonyms:
   plosion, blowup, burst, detonation

4. explosionnoun

   the noise caused by an explosion

   "the explosion was heard a mile away"

   Synonyms:
   plosion, blowup, burst, detonation

5. plosion, explosionnoun

   the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant

   Synonyms:
   blowup, burst, detonation, plosion

6. explosionnoun

   a sudden outburst

   "an explosion of laughter"; "an explosion of rage"

   Synonyms:
   plosion, blowup, burst, detonation

7. explosionnoun

   a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball

   Synonyms:
   plosion, blowup, burst, detonation

Matched Categories

1. • Change Of Integrity
   • Discharge
   • Effusion
   • Golf Stroke
   • Increase
   • Noise

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1. explosionnoun

   Synonyms:
   burst, bursting, detonation, blast, clap, pop, crack, sudden discharge

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1. explosionnoun

   Synonyms:
   detonation, detonization, bursting, outburst

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1. List of paraphrases for "explosion":

   blast, bombing, explodes, detonation, bomb, exploded, explosive, exploding, blowout, bombings, outburst, boom, eruption, blasts, outbreak, burst, explosions

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How to use explosion in a sentence?

1. The Lexington:

   Nothing leads us to believe this is anything other than an accidental explosion.

2. Representative Adam Schiff:

   Given North Korea's often boastful claims in the past, its assertion that it has mastered the science necessary for a thermonuclear explosion cannot be accepted uncritically.

3. Kit Harington:

   I think 'Spooks' always wanted to be a film. It wanted to have the big explosion. It wanted to have the sweeping shot of London. It wanted to have bigger action scenes, so, what's similar is that it's still a gritty, spy thriller based in London and still in a very real world. What's different is that it's bigger on scope. We got to do things in this that they couldn't do in the TV show.

4. Jeff Kuprycz:

   There was no explosion or anything. It just sounded like a car hitting the ground or a tree or something. Like that one little bang, and that was it.

5. Daniel Perley:

   The properties of the Cow strain nearly all models we have tried to devise to explain it, whatever it is, it must involve some form of energetic and very fast explosion interacting with an extremely dense shell of material very close to the explosion progenitor.