Explosion
The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc.
A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc.
A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath.
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Explosion Quotations
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
Richard Dawkins
Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
Tony Blair
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray Bradbury
I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.
Norman Jewison
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
Jim Harrison
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
Boris Pasternak
I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.
Robin Quivers
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides
However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there.
Hassan Nasrallah
Explosion Translations
explosion in Afrikaans is ontploffing
explosion in Dutch is uitbarsting, ontploffing, explosie
explosion in French is explosion
explosion in Italian is esplosione
explosion in Norwegian is eksplosjon
explosion in Swedish is krevad
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