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bolide

noun as in shooting star

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Astrophysicists say it was a bolide, or a meteor that explodes in the air.

It said blandly that a bolide—a slow-moving, large meteoric object—had been observed by radar to be descending to earth.

A bolide had fallen into the Catanian sea—he took me to the port and showed me precisely where.

They stopped arguing about last night's bolide to take ringside seats.

The argument on the path of last night's bolide and why it fell where it did is again in order.

It was the sound of the bolide's passage, arriving after the object itself had dived into the sea.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bolide, such as: comet, falling star, fireball, meteorite, and meteoroid.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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