Explosion
Explosion noun - A sudden intense expression of strong feeling.
Usage example: the explosion of patriotic feeling that the country experienced after that momentous event
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Synonyms for Explosion
Flare and explosion are semantically related In some cases you can use "Flare" instead a noun "Explosion".
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| similar | similar explosion | similar flare |
| standard | standard explosion | standard flare |
| single | single explosion | single flare |
| small | small explosion | small flare |
| Other adjectives: bright, powerful, massive, large, enormous, little, psychic, dramatic, final, catastrophic, deadly, mysterious, imminent, last, giant, sudden, resulting, biotic. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Matvey's wife, a Fire mage, while heavily wounded in the Blight Catacombs, used a massive flare spell to lure monsters to herself, and then suicided in an explosion, allowing her husband to escape.
Source: Literature / Xenos -
If he catches even a glimpse of you or you eliminate him without grabbing him from behind, he will throw the flare into the oil and kill you instantly in a huge explosion.
Source: That One Level -
Krypton fell under Tomar-Re's jurisdiction, so he gathered a bunch of Stellarium to absorb the explosion, but got blinded by a solar flare and did not make it in time.
Source: My Greatest Failure
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Flare and Explosion. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/explosion/flare
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