dynamites

Verb

dynamite (third-person singular simple present dynamites, present participle dynamiting, simple past and past participle dynamited)

1. To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.
   • Gradually the construction gangs cut and dynamited their way through some of the most difficult country in the world.1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 128
2. (figuratively) To dismantle or destroy.
   • Even the successful battle in the last century to overturn the court’s infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson “separate but equal” doctrine wasn’t a frontal assault that dynamited precedent.2021 July 29, Harry Litman, “Column: Mississippi’s abortion brief dynamites standing law and ‘super duper’ precedents”, in The Los Angeles Times
3. (transitive) To apply maximum pressure to very quickly.
   • dynamite the brakes
4. (intransitive) To lock up from being invoked too suddenly.
   • the brakes will dynamite

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