"dynamite" meaning in English

See dynamite in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/, /ˈdɪ.nəˌmaɪt/ [obsolete] Audio: En-au-dynamite.ogg [Australia] Forms: dynamites [plural]
Etymology: Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”) + -ite, most likely under the influence of dynamo or dynamic. Etymology templates: {{coin|en|Alfred Nobel|in=1867|nobycat=1}} Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867, {{der|en|grc|δύναμις||power}} Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”), {{suffix|en||ite}} + -ite, {{m|en|dynamo}} dynamo, {{m|en|dynamic}} dynamic Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} dynamite (usually uncountable, plural dynamites)
  1. A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (class of explosives): dinamiet (Afrikaans), dinamit [masculine] (Albanian), دِينَامِيت (dinamit) [masculine] (Arabic), ուժանակ (užanak) (Armenian), dinamita [feminine] (Asturian), dinamit (Azerbaijani), dinamita (Basque), дынамі́т (dynamít) [masculine] (Belarusian), динами́т (dinamít) [masculine] (Bulgarian), dinamita [feminine] (Catalan), 炸藥 (Chinese Mandarin), 炸药 (zhàyào) (Chinese Mandarin), dynamit [neuter] (Czech), dynamit [common-gender] (Danish), dynamiet [neuter] (Dutch), dinamito (Esperanto), dünamiit (Estonian), dynamiitti (Finnish), dynamite [feminine] (French), dinamita [feminine] (Galician), დინამიტი (dinamiṭi) (Georgian), Dynamit [neuter] (German), דִינָמִיט (dinamit) [masculine] (Hebrew), बारूद (bārūd) [feminine] (Hindi), बारूत (bārūt) [feminine] (Hindi), dinamit (Hungarian), dýnamít (Icelandic), dinamito (Ido), dinamita (Ilocano), dinimít [feminine] (Irish), dinamite [feminine] (Italian), ダイナマイト (dainamaito) (Japanese), 다이너마이트 (daineomaiteu) (Korean), ດິນລະເບີດ (din la bœ̄t) (Lao), dinamīts [feminine] (Latvian), dinamitas [feminine] (Lithuanian), динамит (dinamit) [masculine] (Macedonian), dinamit (Malay), tainamaiti (Maori), dynamitt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dynamitt [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), dinamita [feminine] (Occitan), دینامیت (dinâmit) (Persian), dynamit [masculine] (Polish), dinamite [feminine] (Portuguese), dinamită (Romanian), динами́т (dinamít) [masculine] (Russian), динамит [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), dinamit [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), dinamita [feminine] (Spanish), baruti (Swahili), dynamit [neuter] (Swedish), dinamita (Tagalog), டைனமைட் (ṭaiṉamaiṭ) (Tamil), డైనమైటు (ḍainamaiṭu) (Telugu), dinamit (Turkish), динамі́т (dynamít) [masculine] (Ukrainian), باروت (bārūt) [feminine] (Urdu), بارود (bārūd) [feminine] (Urdu), mìn (Vietnamese), đinamit (Vietnamese), deinameit [feminine] (Welsh), דיינאַמייט (deynameyt) [feminine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-dynamite-en-noun-S19gV4hy Disambiguation of 'class of explosives': 69 13 5 13
  2. (informal, proscribed) A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT). Tags: informal, proscribed, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Explosives Translations (stick of trinitrotoluene): laska dynamitu [feminine] (Polish), dynamitpatron [common-gender] (Swedish), dynamitgubbe [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-dynamite-en-noun-p8zYWnBK Disambiguation of Explosives: 15 36 3 14 13 5 2 11 Disambiguation of 'stick of trinitrotoluene': 8 74 5 13
  3. (figuratively, slang, uncountable) Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful. Tags: figuratively, slang, uncountable, usually Translations (figuratively): Sprengstoff [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-dynamite-en-noun-E-qILO3T Disambiguation of 'figuratively': 0 0 100 0
  4. (slang) A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana. Tags: slang, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Recreational drugs
    Sense id: en-dynamite-en-noun-JelzbdB1 Disambiguation of Recreational drugs: 8 17 7 35 16 3 2 13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nitro Derived forms: boom goes the dynamite, dynamite charge, dynamite roll, dynamite tree

Verb

IPA: /ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/, /ˈdɪ.nəˌmaɪt/ [obsolete] Audio: En-au-dynamite.ogg [Australia] Forms: dynamites [present, singular, third-person], dynamiting [participle, present], dynamited [participle, past], dynamited [past]
Etymology: Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”) + -ite, most likely under the influence of dynamo or dynamic. Etymology templates: {{coin|en|Alfred Nobel|in=1867|nobycat=1}} Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867, {{der|en|grc|δύναμις||power}} Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”), {{suffix|en||ite}} + -ite, {{m|en|dynamo}} dynamo, {{m|en|dynamic}} dynamic Head templates: {{en-verb}} dynamite (third-person singular simple present dynamites, present participle dynamiting, simple past and past participle dynamited)
  1. To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive. Translations (to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive): dinamitar (Asturian), dinamitar (Catalan), demolere (Danish), dynamiteren (Dutch), räjäyttää dynamiitilla (Finnish), dynamiter (French), dinamitar (Galician), dinamitagar (Ido), réab le dinimít (Irish), tainamaiti (Maori), dinamitar (Portuguese), dinamitar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-dynamite-en-verb-GBrJHaht Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ite Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 13 9 20 25 3 3 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 16 5 12 31 4 3 18 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ite: 10 12 9 16 27 5 5 17 Disambiguation of 'to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive': 91 1 1 6
  2. (figuratively) To dismantle or destroy. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-dynamite-en-verb-k5gsrSiX
  3. (transitive, of brakes) To apply maximum pressure to very quickly. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-dynamite-en-verb-u-gghvNT
  4. (intransitive, of brakes) To lock up from being invoked too suddenly. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-dynamite-en-verb-xvZuf-Zk
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dynamiter Related terms: cordite

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for dynamite meaning in English (19.8kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "boom goes the dynamite"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dynamite charge"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dynamite roll"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dynamite tree"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Alfred Nobel",
        "in": "1867",
        "nobycat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867",
      "name": "coin"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "δύναμις",
        "4": "",
        "5": "power"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "ite"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -ite",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dynamo"
      },
      "expansion": "dynamo",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dynamic"
      },
      "expansion": "dynamic",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”) + -ite, most likely under the influence of dynamo or dynamic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dynamites",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "dynamite (usually uncountable, plural dynamites)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting."
      ],
      "id": "en-dynamite-en-noun-S19gV4hy",
      "links": [
        [
          "class",
          "class"
        ],
        [
          "explosive",
          "explosive"
        ],
        [
          "nitroglycerine",
          "nitroglycerine"
        ],
        [
          "absorbent",
          "absorbent"
        ],
        [
          "medium",
          "medium"
        ],
        [
          "kieselguhr",
          "kieselguhr"
        ],
        [
          "mining",
          "mining"
        ],
        [
          "blasting",
          "blasting"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dinamiet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dinamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "dinamit",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "دِينَامِيت"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "užanak",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "ուժանակ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ast",
          "lang": "Asturian",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dinamita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dinamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dinamita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "dynamít",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "дынамі́т"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "dinamít",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "динами́т"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dinamita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "炸藥"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhàyào",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "炸药"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "dynamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "dynamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "dynamiet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dinamito"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dünamiit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dynamiitti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dynamite"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dinamita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "dinamiṭi",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "დინამიტი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Dynamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "dinamit",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "דִינָמִיט"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "bārūd",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "बारूद"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "bārūt",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "बारूत"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dinamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dýnamít"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dinamito"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ilo",
          "lang": "Ilocano",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dinamita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dinimít"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dinamite"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "dainamaito",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "ダイナマイト"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "daineomaiteu",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "다이너마이트"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "din la bœ̄t",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "ດິນລະເບີດ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dinamīts"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dinamitas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "dinamit",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "динамит"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dinamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "tainamaiti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dynamitt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dynamitt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dinamita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "dinâmit",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "دینامیت"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dynamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dinamite"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dinamită"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "dinamít",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "динами́т"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "динамит"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dinamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dinamita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "baruti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "dynamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dinamita"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ta",
          "lang": "Tamil",
          "roman": "ṭaiṉamaiṭ",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "டைனமைட்"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "ḍainamaiṭu",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "డైనమైటు"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "dinamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "dynamít",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "динамі́т"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "bārūt",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "باروت"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "bārūd",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "بارود"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "mìn"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "word": "đinamit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "deinameit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "69 13 5 13",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "deynameyt",
          "sense": "class of explosives",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "דיינאַמייט"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "15 36 3 14 13 5 2 11",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Explosives",
          "orig": "en:Explosives",
          "parents": [
            "Matter",
            "Weapons",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "Hunting",
            "Military",
            "Tools",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Technology",
            "Fundamental",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT)."
      ],
      "id": "en-dynamite-en-noun-p8zYWnBK",
      "links": [
        [
          "trinitrotoluene",
          "trinitrotoluene"
        ],
        [
          "TNT",
          "TNT"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, proscribed) A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "proscribed",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "8 74 5 13",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "stick of trinitrotoluene",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "laska dynamitu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 74 5 13",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "stick of trinitrotoluene",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "dynamitpatron"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 74 5 13",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "stick of trinitrotoluene",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "dynamitgubbe"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977 April 30, Steve Sasville, “To Clothe Or Not...”, in Gay Community News, page 6",
          "text": "Even though sometimes I take differing views from some articles and letters in GCN, I think it's a dynamite piece of work. Good luck and thanks again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Alex Turner (lyrics and music), “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor”, performed by Arctic Monkeys",
          "text": "And your shoulders are frozen (Cold as the night) / Oh, but you're an explosion (You're dynamite)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Kit Moulton, Annabella, page 108",
          "text": "That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.\nHe warned us: \"That issue about what's been happening at that factory, is political dynamite. Keep the lid on it.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful."
      ],
      "id": "en-dynamite-en-noun-E-qILO3T",
      "links": [
        [
          "exceptionally",
          "exceptionally"
        ],
        [
          "dangerous",
          "dangerous"
        ],
        [
          "exciting",
          "exciting"
        ],
        [
          "wonderful",
          "wonderful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively, slang, uncountable) Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "slang",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "figuratively",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Sprengstoff"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "8 17 7 35 16 3 2 13",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Recreational drugs",
          "orig": "en:Recreational drugs",
          "parents": [
            "Drugs",
            "Matter",
            "Pharmacology",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "Biochemistry",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Biology",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana."
      ],
      "id": "en-dynamite-en-noun-JelzbdB1",
      "links": [
        [
          "heroin",
          "heroin"
        ],
        [
          "cocaine",
          "cocaine"
        ],
        [
          "marijuana",
          "marijuana"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɪ.nəˌmaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-dynamite.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/En-au-dynamite.ogg/En-au-dynamite.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/En-au-dynamite.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "nitro"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "dynamite"
  ],
  "word": "dynamite"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dynamiter"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Alfred Nobel",
        "in": "1867",
        "nobycat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867",
      "name": "coin"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "δύναμις",
        "4": "",
        "5": "power"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "ite"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -ite",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dynamo"
      },
      "expansion": "dynamo",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dynamic"
      },
      "expansion": "dynamic",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”) + -ite, most likely under the influence of dynamo or dynamic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dynamites",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dynamiting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dynamited",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dynamited",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dynamite (third-person singular simple present dynamites, present participle dynamiting, simple past and past participle dynamited)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "cordite"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "9 13 9 20 25 3 3 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 16 5 12 31 4 3 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 12 9 16 27 5 5 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ite",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101",
          "text": "[...] on Sunday, August 23, the L.N.W.R. tunnel was closed to enable the old brickwork to be dynamited away, traffic being diverted meanwhile through the M.R. tunnel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive."
      ],
      "id": "en-dynamite-en-verb-GBrJHaht",
      "links": [
        [
          "blow up",
          "blow up"
        ],
        [
          "dynamite",
          "#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "high explosive",
          "high explosive"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "ast",
          "lang": "Asturian",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "dinamitar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "dinamitar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "demolere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "dynamiteren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "räjäyttää dynamiitilla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "dynamiter"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "dinamitar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "dinamitagar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "réab le dinimít"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "tainamaiti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "dinamitar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 6",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
          "word": "dinamitar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 29, Harry Litman, “Column: Mississippi’s abortion brief dynamites standing law and ‘super duper’ precedents”, in The Los Angeles Times",
          "text": "Even the successful battle in the last century to overturn the court’s infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson “separate but equal” doctrine wasn’t a frontal assault that dynamited precedent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To dismantle or destroy."
      ],
      "id": "en-dynamite-en-verb-k5gsrSiX",
      "links": [
        [
          "dismantle",
          "dismantle"
        ],
        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To dismantle or destroy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "dynamite the brakes",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Claude M. Pearson, Portia Rising, page 50",
          "text": "Juan dynamited the brakes and the car skidded to a halt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Mike Davis, Hunting Men: The Career of an Oregon State Police Detective, page 6",
          "text": "The 1977 Pontiacs had a tendency of dying if you were at high speed and dynamited the brakes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Laird Barron, Blood Standard",
          "text": "At the critical moment I'd learned from countless action flicks I dynamited the brakes and felt the impact of the sedan against my rear bumper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To apply maximum pressure to very quickly."
      ],
      "id": "en-dynamite-en-verb-u-gghvNT",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, of brakes) To apply maximum pressure to very quickly."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of brakes"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "the brakes will dynamite",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lock up from being invoked too suddenly."
      ],
      "id": "en-dynamite-en-verb-xvZuf-Zk",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of brakes) To lock up from being invoked too suddenly."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of brakes"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɪ.nəˌmaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-dynamite.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/En-au-dynamite.ogg/En-au-dynamite.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/En-au-dynamite.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "dynamite"
  ],
  "word": "dynamite"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English coinages",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "English terms suffixed with -ite",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Explosives",
    "en:Recreational drugs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "boom goes the dynamite"
    },
    {
      "word": "dynamite charge"
    },
    {
      "word": "dynamite roll"
    },
    {
      "word": "dynamite tree"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Alfred Nobel",
        "in": "1867",
        "nobycat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867",
      "name": "coin"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "δύναμις",
        "4": "",
        "5": "power"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "ite"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -ite",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dynamo"
      },
      "expansion": "dynamo",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dynamic"
      },
      "expansion": "dynamic",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”) + -ite, most likely under the influence of dynamo or dynamic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dynamites",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "dynamite (usually uncountable, plural dynamites)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "class",
          "class"
        ],
        [
          "explosive",
          "explosive"
        ],
        [
          "nitroglycerine",
          "nitroglycerine"
        ],
        [
          "absorbent",
          "absorbent"
        ],
        [
          "medium",
          "medium"
        ],
        [
          "kieselguhr",
          "kieselguhr"
        ],
        [
          "mining",
          "mining"
        ],
        [
          "blasting",
          "blasting"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English proscribed terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trinitrotoluene",
          "trinitrotoluene"
        ],
        [
          "TNT",
          "TNT"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, proscribed) A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "proscribed",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977 April 30, Steve Sasville, “To Clothe Or Not...”, in Gay Community News, page 6",
          "text": "Even though sometimes I take differing views from some articles and letters in GCN, I think it's a dynamite piece of work. Good luck and thanks again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Alex Turner (lyrics and music), “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor”, performed by Arctic Monkeys",
          "text": "And your shoulders are frozen (Cold as the night) / Oh, but you're an explosion (You're dynamite)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Kit Moulton, Annabella, page 108",
          "text": "That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.\nHe warned us: \"That issue about what's been happening at that factory, is political dynamite. Keep the lid on it.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exceptionally",
          "exceptionally"
        ],
        [
          "dangerous",
          "dangerous"
        ],
        [
          "exciting",
          "exciting"
        ],
        [
          "wonderful",
          "wonderful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively, slang, uncountable) Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "slang",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heroin",
          "heroin"
        ],
        [
          "cocaine",
          "cocaine"
        ],
        [
          "marijuana",
          "marijuana"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɪ.nəˌmaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-dynamite.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/En-au-dynamite.ogg/En-au-dynamite.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/En-au-dynamite.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "nitro"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dinamiet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dinamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "dinamit",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "دِينَامِيت"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "užanak",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "ուժանակ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dinamita"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dinamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dinamita"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "dynamít",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дынамі́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dinamít",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "динами́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dinamita"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "炸藥"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhàyào",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "炸药"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "dynamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "dynamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "dynamiet"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dinamito"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dünamiit"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dynamiitti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dynamite"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dinamita"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "dinamiṭi",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "დინამიტი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Dynamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "dinamit",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "דִינָמִיט"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "bārūd",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "बारूद"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "bārūt",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "बारूत"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dinamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dýnamít"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dinamito"
    },
    {
      "code": "ilo",
      "lang": "Ilocano",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dinamita"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dinimít"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dinamite"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dainamaito",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "ダイナマイト"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "daineomaiteu",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "다이너마이트"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "din la bœ̄t",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "ດິນລະເບີດ"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dinamīts"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dinamitas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "dinamit",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "динамит"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dinamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "tainamaiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dynamitt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dynamitt"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dinamita"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "dinâmit",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "دینامیت"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dynamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dinamite"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dinamită"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dinamít",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "динами́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "динамит"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dinamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dinamita"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "baruti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "dynamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dinamita"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "ṭaiṉamaiṭ",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "டைனமைட்"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "ḍainamaiṭu",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "డైనమైటు"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "dinamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dynamít",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "динамі́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "bārūt",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "باروت"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "bārūd",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "بارود"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "mìn"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "word": "đinamit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "deinameit"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "deynameyt",
      "sense": "class of explosives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "דיינאַמייט"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "stick of trinitrotoluene",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "laska dynamitu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "stick of trinitrotoluene",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "dynamitpatron"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "stick of trinitrotoluene",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "dynamitgubbe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "figuratively",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sprengstoff"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "dynamite"
  ],
  "word": "dynamite"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English coinages",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "English terms suffixed with -ite",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Explosives",
    "en:Recreational drugs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "dynamiter"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Alfred Nobel",
        "in": "1867",
        "nobycat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867",
      "name": "coin"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "δύναμις",
        "4": "",
        "5": "power"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "ite"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -ite",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dynamo"
      },
      "expansion": "dynamo",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dynamic"
      },
      "expansion": "dynamic",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”) + -ite, most likely under the influence of dynamo or dynamic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dynamites",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dynamiting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dynamited",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dynamited",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dynamite (third-person singular simple present dynamites, present participle dynamiting, simple past and past participle dynamited)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "cordite"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101",
          "text": "[...] on Sunday, August 23, the L.N.W.R. tunnel was closed to enable the old brickwork to be dynamited away, traffic being diverted meanwhile through the M.R. tunnel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blow up",
          "blow up"
        ],
        [
          "dynamite",
          "#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "high explosive",
          "high explosive"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 29, Harry Litman, “Column: Mississippi’s abortion brief dynamites standing law and ‘super duper’ precedents”, in The Los Angeles Times",
          "text": "Even the successful battle in the last century to overturn the court’s infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson “separate but equal” doctrine wasn’t a frontal assault that dynamited precedent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To dismantle or destroy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dismantle",
          "dismantle"
        ],
        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To dismantle or destroy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "dynamite the brakes",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Claude M. Pearson, Portia Rising, page 50",
          "text": "Juan dynamited the brakes and the car skidded to a halt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Mike Davis, Hunting Men: The Career of an Oregon State Police Detective, page 6",
          "text": "The 1977 Pontiacs had a tendency of dying if you were at high speed and dynamited the brakes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Laird Barron, Blood Standard",
          "text": "At the critical moment I'd learned from countless action flicks I dynamited the brakes and felt the impact of the sedan against my rear bumper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To apply maximum pressure to very quickly."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, of brakes) To apply maximum pressure to very quickly."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of brakes"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "the brakes will dynamite",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lock up from being invoked too suddenly."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of brakes) To lock up from being invoked too suddenly."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of brakes"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɪ.nəˌmaɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-dynamite.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/En-au-dynamite.ogg/En-au-dynamite.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/En-au-dynamite.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "dinamitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "dinamitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "demolere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "dynamiteren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "räjäyttää dynamiitilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "dynamiter"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "dinamitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "dinamitagar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "réab le dinimít"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "tainamaiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "dinamitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive",
      "word": "dinamitar"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "dynamite"
  ],
  "word": "dynamite"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.