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Exploding and Raging

verb

  • Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.
    • usage: "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
  • Burst outward, usually with noise.
    • usage: "The champagne bottle exploded"
  • Show a violent emotional reaction.
    • usage: "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"
  • Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.
    • usage: "His anger exploded"
  • Destroy by exploding.
    • usage: "The enemy exploded the bridge"
  • Cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/.
  • Drive from the stage by noisy disapproval.
  • Show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete.
  • (v.) ()
  • Increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner.
    • usage: "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Explode.

verb

  • Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger.
  • Be violent; as of fires and storms.
  • Feel intense anger.
    • usage: "Rage against the dying of the light"

adjective

  • Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense.
    • usage: "the fighting became hot and heavy"; "a hot engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river became a raging torrent"
  • Very severe.
    • usage: "a raging thirst"; "a raging toothache"
  • Of the elements. ( as if showing violent anger)
    • usage: "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea"
  • (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Rage.
  • a. & n. from Rage, v. i.