dynamite

Plural: dynamites

Noun

• an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp
• A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.
• A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT).
• Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful.
• A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana.

Verb

Verb Forms: dynamited, dynamiting, dynamites

• To blow up or destroy with dynamite, a powerful explosive.
• blow up with dynamite
  • "The rock was dynamited"
• To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.
• To dismantle or destroy.
• To apply maximum pressure to very quickly.
• To lock up from being invoked too suddenly.

Examples

• dynamite the brakes
• His opponent’s triple-word, triple-letter score seemed to dynamite his hopes of winning.
• the brakes will dynamite

Synonyms

nitro

Related Words

cordite

Anagrams of dynamite