Explosion
Explosion noun - An outburst or display of excited anger.
Usage example: the tennis player's expletive-enriched explosions on the court tested the patience of officials
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Synonyms for Explosion
Rise and explosion are semantically related. in increase topic. In some cases you can use "Rise" instead a noun "Explosion".
How words are described
| similar | similar explosion | similar rise |
| complete | complete explosion | complete rise |
| initial | initial explosion | initial rise |
| single | single explosion | single rise |
| Other adjectives: small, actual, massive, big, huge, little, dramatic, catastrophic, mysterious, inevitable, subsequent, eventual, sudden, nuclear. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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It lives on in Canadian memory, and while technically not a bomb, it was the single largest conventional manmade explosion until the A-Bombs gave rise to the nuclear age (it remains one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history).
Source: Big Bulky Bomb - Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea gives us a non-explosion version, where the main character causes sea levels to rise drastically, but no one ever points out that logically she could have killed millions of people.
Source: No Endor Holocaust - While video collages have existed as an art form since the 1960s, they were something of a film-school peculiarity until the explosion of video capture and editing tools and the rise of online video repositories such as YouTube made it a rather trivial matter to put one together.
Source: Video Collage
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