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unexploded

Word definitions for unexploded in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not exploded

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. still capable of exploding or being fired; "undischarged ammunition"; "an unexploded bomb" [syn: undischarged ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Unexploded is the name of a one-man rock band as well as the alias of its singer-songwriter member. Founded in 2002, Unexploded was asked to perform at several festivals in 2004, but settled for releases on 2 compilations; one in Japan on Stargate Recordings ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an unexploded bomb ▪ The workmen found an unexploded bomb. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN bomb ▪ And two unexploded bombs in the Mile End Road. ▪ Their wastes include solvents, fuels, mine tailings, radioactive ...

Usage examples of unexploded.

Packed in his carpetbag were two gray rebel caps, one with a bullet hole and the other satisfyingly stained with blood, a zinc plug from an unexploded shell, a revolver with a barrel shattered by a cannonball, the knucklebone of a dead rebel, and a rusting belt buckle with the initials CSA stamped clearly on its face.

Then if you had to walk around the base with all this internal concertina, with all these unexploded pieces of ordnance, trucks, jeeps, and wrecks of airplanes, walls of sandbags and old tent pegs that were still poking out, you were obviously going to trip somewhere.

Regular features of the time: neatly swept-up piles of glass, litter of stone and splinters of flint, smell of escaping gas, knots of sightseers waiting at the cordons where there are unexploded bombs.

And guess what--one of the unexploded bombs recovered from the Fort Worth bombing matches a military lot-number of several cluster bomb units stolen from a Nevada Navy arsenal several days prior.

The LifeShield is also the secret technology behind America's humanitarian campaign to rid the world of land mines and the unexploded munitions of the twentieth century's wars.

Sections of the galaxy were strewn with the unexploded minefields from ancient wars--and not necessarily of Nastie origin.

The same was true when religious groups tried to send shovels to Laos to dig up some of the unexploded shells left by American bombing.