DYNAMITING

  

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DYNAMITING

Definition: DYNAMITING

DYNAMITING

Noun

1. Destroying by dynamite, for political ends.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms: DYNAMITING

Synonyms by domain: dynamite (european union, chemical industrymilitary & defense, chemical industry), to blast (mining), to dynamite.

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Crosswords: DYNAMITING

Specialty definitions using "DYNAMITING": WILDLIFE CONTROL AGENT. (references)

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Photo Album: DYNAMITING

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Blasting crew boring into vein with horizontal drill for dynamiting. Mahoning pit, Hibbing, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: DYNAMITING

"DYNAMITING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "DYNAMITING" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (-ing form)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DYNAMITING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bleaching coral destruction dynamiting pollution reef

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DYNAMITING

Language Translations for "DYNAMITING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

sprengend (bursting open). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ynamitingday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DYNAMITING

Misspellings

"DYNAMITING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dynamation, dynamising. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DYNAMITING"

Words rhyming with "DYNAMITING" (pronounced 'Dy"na*mi`ting'): Bloodletting, Bogtrotting, Candidating, Caveating, Cursitating, Dewretting, fulgurating, hairsplitting, indiscriminating, Moon-culminating, Odorating, Screw-cutting, Self-propagating, Stonecutting, Subalternating, Typesetting, Undersetting, Upsitting, Woodcutting. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DYNAMITING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-i-m-n-n-t-y"

-3 letters: aminity, damning, dignity, dinting, inanity, indamin, minding, minting, tidying.

-4 letters: aiding, aiming, amidin, anting, dainty, dating, diamin, digamy, dimity, dining, indign, intima, mantid, mating, maying, mining, minyan, naming, niding, taming, tiding, timing, tining, tinman, tyning.

-5 letters: admit, amity, animi, digit, dingy, dying, gamin, giant, ginny, mangy, matin, mingy, minny, minty, nitid, tangy, timid.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-i-m-n-n-t-y"
 

+3 letters: demyelinating.

 

+4 letters: intimidatingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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