dynamiting
present participle ofdynamite
dynamite
verb[T]
uk/ˈdaɪ.nə.maɪt/us/ˈdaɪ.nə.maɪt/todestroysomething using dynamite:
Therebelshad dynamited therailwayline.
Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- annihilation
- apocalypse
- bash
- bash through (something)
- be sacrificed on the altar ofsomethingidiom
- fall in
- in piecesidiom
- indestructibility
- killsomethingoff
- kill the goose that lays the golden eggidiom
- sacrifice
- self-destruct
- self-devouring
- shred
- sink
- stave
- stavesomethingin
- tear
- wipe
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Exploding and erupting
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dynamiting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Some of the gaps resulted fromdynamitingto allow the transpor t of logwood or chicle downstream and merchandise upstream.
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I do not mind the idea ofdynamitingthe system, because people are genuinely distressed by it and feel that it needs radical change.
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The tenants know that although the cost ofdynamitingthe estate will be high —about £26·5 million—the cost of trying to improve it will be even higher, at about £27 million.
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Men tried to stop the inferno, evendynamitingstores to create a fire break, but the updraft lifted embers and dropped them onto more buildings.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are also threatened by the degradation of their coral reef habitat by human development, and by destructive fishing practices such asdynamitingor poisoning.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The cave was obliterated in a massive 1954 rockfall and subsequentdynamitingof a dangerous overhang.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The man then leaves the hut, jumps on a snowmobile and rides out to the site, arriving just in time to stop thedynamiting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The first six years involveddynamitingthe rock into the basic shape, and the remaining four years were devoted to completing the detail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Steffens proposed to defend their actions in print as justifiabledynamitingin the face of employer violence and state-sponsored repression of labor unions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They found nothing which requireddynamiting, but did attach buoys to some small wrecks at one end of the beach.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These works included an aqueduct and other actions such asdynamitingto divert the water to the city.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Damaged by fire in 1940 and destroyed bydynamitingin 1944, it was again rebuilt in 1961.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In response, these residents actively protested against the aqueduct's construction, evendynamitingthe aqueduct's concrete canal.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The confession was said to implicate several other men in the extortion anddynamitingplot.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Another hobby consists ofdynamitingmodel trains as they are about to collide with each other, by using a hand detonator.
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