Synonyms for gunpowder
ˈgʌnˌpaʊ dərgun·pow·der

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1. gunpowder, powdernoun

   a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks

   Synonyms:
   pulverisation, powder, pulverization

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1. • Explosive

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1. List of paraphrases for "gunpowder":

   powder, baroud, keg, cordite

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1. Simms:

   The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.

2. Claire Papoulias:

   The teacher was presenting a lesson and all of sudden I heard gunshots directly behind me. That’s when the shooter opened the back classroom door and started firing at my classmates in the back, wounding them. I smelled and saw the gunpowder, i thought I was going to die.

3. Lynda Vanartsdalen:

   There was all this popping and smoke, i can still smell the gunpowder to this day.

4. Alfred Hitchcock:

   We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

5. Dean F. Wilson:

   That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.