OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19930

dynamite

/ˈdʌɪnəmʌɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dinamita
A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 19931

dynamite

/ˈdʌɪnəmʌɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dinamitar
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.
[...] on Sunday, August 23, the L.N.W.R. tunnel was closed to enable the old brickwork to be dynamited away, traffic being diverted meanwhile through the M.R. tunnel.