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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

explosif

Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion;

as, the

explosive

force of gunpowder

A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath;

(Phonetics)

one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice.

[See Guide to Pronunciation, √ 155-7, 184.]

Adj.

Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as the explosive force of gun-powder.