Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: dynamite
IPA transcription: [d'aɪnəm,aɪt]
Pronunciations of dynamite
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dynamite
    Meaning: an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dynamite
    Meaning: blow up with dynamite; "The rock was dynamited"
Usage examples
  • "No more dynamite!
  • "No more dynamite!
  • O God! no more dynamite!
  • Fighting the Flames With Dynamite.
  • Buzz-saws are small, too, and sticks of dynamite. Shall we go hunt up the parson--or should it be a priest?
  • The cloud of despair grew darker still as the report spread that the city's supply of dynamite had given out.
  • They had dynamite, gunpowder and other explosives, and in the frightful exigency there was nothing else to be used.
  • In one place I suddenly found myself near the model of a tin-mine, and then by the merest accident I discovered, in an air-tight case, two dynamite cartridges!
  • A series of three-inch holes twenty feet deep were drilled eight feet apart, about twelve feet back of the ore-bank, and into these were inserted dynamite cartridges.
  • "But Lenin has issued an order to dynamite the State Bank vaults, and there is a Decree just out, ordering the private banks to open to-morrow, or we will open them ourselves!"
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Alfred Nobel, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Seacology, License CC BY-SA 4.0