Explosive
Frantic
Frantic adjective - Feeling overwhelming fear or worry.
Explosive and frantic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explosive" instead an adjective "Frantic".
Nearby Word: frantically
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Hollywood Hacking: It takes Merlin only a few seconds of frantic key-tapping to remote-activate all of Valentine's explosive loyalty-chip implants worldwide.
- Almost 2/3rd of the episode featured the frantic efforts of the crew of Japan Airlines Flight 123 to control their 747 after an explosive decompression.
Source: Series / Air Crash Investigation -
The developers tried varying them by making the barrels green, but realized that playtesters simply weren't shooting them at all because "red=explosive" in gamers' minds, and in the frantic firefights you need to be able to quickly identify something like that.
Source: Video Game / Bulletstorm
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