Matching Words
7057 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Expletion
- - Accomplishment; fulfillment.
Expletive
- noun - a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
- An Oath.
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted"
Exploding
- verb - be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise; "His anger exploded"
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded"
- burst outward, usually with noise; "The champagne bottle exploded"
- cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
- destroy by exploding; "The enemy exploded the bridge"
- drive from the stage by noisy disapproval
- increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner; "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"
- show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete
- show a violent emotional reaction; "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"
Exploring
- verb - examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes
- examine minutely
- inquire into; "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"
- travel to or penetrate into; "explore unknown territory in biology"
Explosion
- noun - a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball
- a sudden great increase; "the population explosion"; "the information explosion"
- a sudden outburst; "an explosion of laughter"; "an explosion of rage"
- a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction
- the act of exploding or bursting; "the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children"; "the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft"
- the noise caused by an explosion; "the explosion was heard a mile away"
- the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant
Explosive
- adjective - a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
- liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"
- serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst; "an explosive device"; "explosive gas"; "explosive force"; "explosive violence"; "an explosive temper"
- sudden and loud; "an explosive laugh"
Exporting
- verb - cause to spread in another part of the world; "The Russians exported Marxism to Africa"
- sell or transfer abroad; "we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance"
- the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country
- transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs
Expulsion
- noun - squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of pus from the pimple"
- the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
- the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"
Expulsive
- - Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.
Expunging
- verb - deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"