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View synonyms for plosive
plosive
/ ˈpləʊsɪv /
adjective
- articulated with or accompanied by plosion
noun
- a plosive consonant; stop
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Word History and Origins
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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.
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We might mount a machine-gun in each quadrant, shooting X-plosive bullets, through pressure gaskets in the walls.
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Luckily, the enemy knows nothing of the object-compass or the X-plosive, and we must keep them in ignorance.
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From its rarity I infer that the Plosive stock has not multiplied lavishly on the earth.
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They found that the X-plosive came fully up to expectations.
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