Antonyms for Explosion
ɪkˈsploʊ ʒənex·plo·sion

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1. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

2. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

3. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

4. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

5. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

6. explosionnoun

   Antonyms:
   implosion

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1. explosion, detonation, blowupnoun

   a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction

   Synonyms:
   detonation, outburst, enlargement, gush, plosion, magnification, blowup, explosion, effusion, ebullition, burst

2. explosion, burstnoun

   the act of exploding or bursting

   "the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children"; "the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft"

   Synonyms:
   detonation, fusillade, outburst, fit, plosion, blowup, explosion, salvo, volley, flare-up, burst

3. explosionnoun

   a sudden great increase

   "the population explosion"; "the information explosion"

   Synonyms:
   plosion, blowup, burst, detonation

4. explosionnoun

   the noise caused by an explosion

   "the explosion was heard a mile away"

   Synonyms:
   plosion, blowup, burst, detonation

5. plosion, explosionnoun

   the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant

   Synonyms:
   explosion, blowup, burst, detonation, plosion

6. explosionnoun

   a sudden outburst

   "an explosion of laughter"; "an explosion of rage"

   Synonyms:
   plosion, blowup, burst, detonation

7. explosionnoun

   a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball

   Synonyms:
   plosion, blowup, burst, detonation

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1. explosionnoun

   Synonyms:
   detonation, detonization, bursting, outburst

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. combustion

   a violent release of energy

   the explosion was big

   Submitted by carpentez10 on April 1, 2019  

How to use Explosion in a sentence?

1. Gary Reisfield:

   Much attention has been paid to the explosion of prescription opioid prescribing and the associated morbidity and mortality. Much less attention has been paid to the shadow epidemic of benzodiazepine prescribing and its consequences.

2. Viktoria Shishkina:

   Whoever caused that explosion, I took a direct hit in the belly -- right to my baby -- and they weren't able to save him.

3. Northwesterns Raffaella Margutti:

   A lightbulb was sitting deep inside the ejecta of the explosion, it would have been hard to see this in a normal stellar explosion. But The Cow had very little ejecta mass, which allowed us to view the central engines radiation directly.

4. Brady Ieler:

   I saw a smaller aircraft go straight down, and then there was a big explosion, and smoke filled the sky within 10 seconds.

5. Ankara Gov. Mehmet Kiliclar:

   The explosion may have been caused by a car bomb.

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