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US
/ˌɛksˈpɫoʊsɪvɫi/
]
[ UK /ɛksplˈəʊsɪvli/ ]
[ UK /ɛksplˈəʊsɪvli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in an explosive manner
the political situation in Kashmir and Jammu is explosively unstable -
suddenly and rapidly
the population in Central America is growing explosively
How To Use explosively In A Sentence
- Instead, they became even brassier, the graphics still more explosively portentous, the panics more moral. It's a good week for … Britain
- Instead they found a circular patch of badly charred and flattened trees 60 kilometres across, formed by the airburst as the rock disintegrated explosively due to the huge stresses caused by entry into the atmosphere.
- Second, white all fish populations take a hit in their rapidly shrinking world during a drought, the smaller, omnivorous species may bounce back explosively afterward; the mosquito fish, for example, can breed every three months.
- Shield volcanoes tend to erupt non-explosively, mainly pouring out huge volumes of fluid lava.
- The finalists adjust and readjust their goggles; they swing their arms in fast circles and jump explosively upward.
- Volcanoes erupt not simply because magma is hot, but because hot, rising magma turns underground water to steam, which then expands explosively.
- Beauty will not intrude on proceedings when the bell sounds on Saturday for a bout between two fighters, one explosively combative, the other composed and skillful.
- The most obvious was the gun assembly technique, in which two subcritical masses of enriched uranium were explosively driven and held together until nuclear fission began and was sustained.
- It was followed by an explosively dazzling Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 11, which affirmed her purposeful and communicative pianism.
- The nonreactive nitrogen is meant to prevent outside air from entering the containment structures, where the air's oxygen can react explosively with the hydrogen produced by the damaged reactors. Crippled Nuclear Plant Largely Meets Three-Month Goals