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Definition of Exploding
1. explode [v] - See also: explode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exploding
Literary usage of Exploding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"... which drew from the enemy a terrific cannonading, which lasted more than one
hour, many of their shells exploding near my regiment, but without injury ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Torts: Or the Wrongs which Arise Independently of by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, John Lewis (1907)
"1 But where a boy, walking along a track at a distance from any station or
crossing, picked up a torpedo and was injured by exploding it, the company was ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"$7000 — coal miner, earning $100 per month — arms, hands, face, neck and back
badly burned by exploding mine gas, plaintiff badly scarred and ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"It again failed, and, procuring a musket, Walker went to the vicinity of the gate
and fired into the powder, exploding it at once and blowing in the gate. ..."
5. Memoirs and Proceedings (1888)
"He also exhibited a new form of American frictional electrical machine for
exploding dynamite in blasting, and capable of exploding 1000 fuses at once. ..."
6. The Law Relating to Oil and Gas: Including Oil and Gas Leases and Contracts by William Wheeler Thornton (1904)
"exploding tank injuring servant. A railroad company had its own gas plant, ...
The person who was killed by it exploding was employed by the company before ..."
7. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1865)
"This is turned to practical use in exploding gunpowder, in engineering and mining
operations. Two wires of a battery placed at a safe distance are insulated ..."
8. Inorganic Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1898)
"Calculation of the Results Obtained >in exploding Mixtures of Hydrogen and Oxygen.
... What contraction will there be on exploding the mixture ? ..."
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