Synonyms:
explosion, detonation, blowup
Meaning: a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction
Synonyms:
explosion, burst
Meaning: the act of exploding or bursting; "the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children"; "the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft"
Usage examples
"There's been an explosion.
A flicker of a match, and there is an explosion.
He had expected an explosion of gratitude and excitement.
The British steamer Horace experienced the effect of the explosion when farther from land.
The clerks at the tables laid down their pens, and awaited the explosion in a sort of terror.
You cannot deliver a broadside without concentrated force--that is what produces the explosion.
One corner I saw was charred and shattered; perhaps, I thought, by an explosion among the specimens.
O, Becky, the explosion last night took away my sight, made me a useless blind man, but it opened my eyes too!
I communicated my fears to him, and drew back a step to give him room for the explosion which I knew must follow.
By a marvel of speed he had the sash lowered, and was behind the door, when the building was shaken by an explosion.