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Exploding and Roaring

exploding

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"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Explode.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
roaring

noun

verb

  • Make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles.
    • usage: "The wind was howling in the trees"; "The water roared down the chute"
  • Utter words loudly and forcefully.
    • usage: "`Get out of here,' he roared"
  • Emit long loud cries.
    • usage: "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow"
  • Act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way."desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town-R. A. Billington
  • Make a loud noise, as of animal.
    • usage: "The bull bellowed"
  • Laugh unrestrainedly and heartily.

adjective

  • Very lively and profitable.
    • usage: "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"

adverb

  • Extremely.
    • usage: "roaring drunk"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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