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View synonyms for plosive

plosive

[ ploh-siv ]

adjective

  1. (of a stop consonant or occlusive) characterized by release in a plosion; explosive.


noun

  1. Also called explosive. a plosive speech sound.

plosive

/ ˈpləʊsɪv /

adjective

  1. articulated with or accompanied by plosion


noun

  1. a plosive consonant; stop

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Word History and Origins

Origin of plosive1

First recorded in 1895–1900; shortened form of explosive

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Word History and Origins

Origin of plosive1

C20: from French, from explosif explosive

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Example Sentences

The question of navigation solved, the two next devoted themselves to perfecting the "X-plosive bullet," as Seaton called it.

We might mount a machine-gun in each quadrant, shooting X-plosive bullets, through pressure gaskets in the walls.

Luckily, the enemy knows nothing of the object-compass or the X-plosive, and we must keep them in ignorance.

From its rarity I infer that the Plosive stock has not multiplied lavishly on the earth.

They found that the X-plosive came fully up to expectations.

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