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air-burst

air-burst is the alternative spelling of airburst.

Meaning of airburst

Noun

airburst (plural airbursts)

  1. The explosion of a bomb (or similar weapon) or meteoroid in the air rather than on the ground.

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Forms of air-burst

pluralair-bursts

Questions about air-burst

What is air-burst the alternative spelling of?
Air-burst is the alternative spelling of airburst.

Words near air-burst in the dictionary

  1. air-brush
  2. air-brushed
  3. air-brushes
  4. air-brushing
  5. air-built
  6. air-burst
  7. air-bursts
  8. air-con
  9. air-condition
  10. air-conditioned
  11. air-conditioner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: air-burst (page history and authors); airburst (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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