Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set off bomb |
| Synonyms: | bang, blast, blow up, burst, discharge, explode, fulminate, kablooey, let go, mushroom, push the button, shoot off, touch off, va-voom |
| Antonyms: | dismantle |
| Main Entry: | blast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explode |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, blight, blow up, bomb, break up, burst, damage, dash, demolish, destroy, detonate, dynamite, injure, kill, ruin, shatter, shrivel, spoil, stunt, torpedo, wither, wreck |
| Main Entry: | blow up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explode |
| Synonyms: | blast, bomb, burst, detonate, dynamite, erupt, go off, mushroom, rupture, shatter |
| Antonyms: | deflate |
| Main Entry: | burst |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up, break out |
| Synonyms: | barge, blow, break, crack, detonate, discharge, disintegrate, erupt, explode, fly open, fracture, fragment, gush forth, perforate, pierce, pop, prick, puncture, rend asunder, run, rupture, rush, shatter, shiver, splinter, split, spout, tear apart |
| Main Entry: | crack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break, usually into parts |
| Synonyms: | burst, chip, chop, cleave, crackle, crash, damage, detonate, explode, fracture, hurt, impair, injure, pop, ring, rive, sever, shiver, snap, splinter, split |
| Antonyms: | fix, mend |
| Main Entry: | erupt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give forth, eject with force |
| Synonyms: | appear, belch, blow up, boil, break out, burst, cast out, detonate, discharge, emit, eruct, explode, extravasate, flare up, go off, gush, hurl, jet, pour forth, rupture, spew, spit, spout, spurt, throw off, touch off, vent, vomit |
| Main Entry: | explode |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up |
| Synonyms: | backfire, blast, blaze, blow to kingdom come, break out, burst, collapse, convulse, detonate, discharge, erupt, flame up, flare up, fracture, jet, kablooey, let go, mushroom, rupture, set off, shatter, shiver, split, thunder |
| Notes: | explode is to blow up from a confined area outwards; implode means blow inwards, as a lightbulb does when it burns out |
| Antonyms: | implode |
| Main Entry: | go off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explode |
| Synonyms: | befall, blow, blow up, burst, detonate, discharge, fire, happen, mushroom, occur, pass, take place |
| Main Entry: | mushroom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sprout; grow quickly |
| Synonyms: | augment, blow up, boom, burgeon, burst, detonate, expand, explode, flourish, go off, grow, grow rapidly, increase, luxuriate, proliferate, shoot up, spread, spring up |
| Notes: | neither mushroom (possibly from 'moss'?) nor toadstool (a fanciful name) is a scientific designation |
| Antonyms: | shrink, shrivel |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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