noun. Any of a class of powerful explosives composed of nitroglycerin or ammonium nitrate dispersed in an absorbent medium with a combustible dope, such as wood pulp, and an antacid, such as calcium carbonate, used in blasting and mining.

noun. undefined

noun. Something exceptionally exciting or wonderful.

noun. Something exceptionally dangerous.

transitive verb. To blow up, shatter, or otherwise destroy with dynamite.

adjective. Outstanding; superb.

To mine or charge with dynamite in order to prevent the approach of an enemy, or for destructive purposes.

To blow up or destroy by or as if by dynamite.

noun. Nitroglycerin soaked up by silicious earth as an inert absorbent or ‘dope’ is now distinguished as dynamite No. 1, and the meaning of the word is extended so as to include also numerous mixtures of nitro-glycerin with absorbents which increase the force of the explosion. See dope, 3.

noun. An explosive of great power, consisting of a mixture of nitroglycerin with some absorbent such as sawdust, or a certain silicious earth from Oberlohe in Hanover.

noun. An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.

noun. A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting; invented by Alfred Nobel in 1867.

noun. Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful.

verb. To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.

verb. blow up with dynamite

noun. an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp

"If Dilara spoke Kurdish, she’d be seeing the word dynamite on the side."

cordite  gelatin dynamite  lignin dynamite  

blow up  detonate  explode  set-off  

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Ballistite  TNT  annihilate  cellulose nitrate  cordite  

dynamited  dynamites  dynamiting