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explosives

explosives is the plural of explosive.

Meaning of explosive

Noun

explosive (plural explosives)

  1. Any explosive substance.
  2. (dated) A plosive.
    • The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance. The open a sound was predominant, and the explosives k and g.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

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Phrases with explosives

Questions about explosives

What is explosives the plural of?
Explosives is the plural of explosive.

Words near explosives in the dictionary

  1. explosively
  2. explosively formed penetrator
  3. explosively formed penetrators
  4. explosiveness
  5. explosivenesses
  6. explosives
  7. explosivities
  8. explosivity
  9. explosophore
  10. explosophores
  11. exply

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