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unexploded
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unexploded
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 wastes, and unexploded bombs and shells.
▪ Mr Aston told the court that the oil tank was like a large unexploded bomb.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was not unknown for an unexploded portion of an old charge to remain dormant but active for years under such conditions.
▪ Mr Aston told the court that the oil tank was like a large unexploded bomb.
▪ Much was seized for food by a starving population, and much became the casualty of unexploded mines and bombs.
▪ Their wastes include solvents, fuels, mine tailings, radioactive wastes, and unexploded bombs and shells.
▪ With its aid, two unexploded mortar bombs are located.
▪ Yet Flemish farmers still unearth unexploded ordnance nearly every day.
Wiktionary
unexploded

a. Not exploded

WordNet
unexploded

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

Wikipedia
Unexploded

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 Antenna Volume One in company with amongst others Bill Laswell.

In 2005 Unexploded was featured on another compilation, on DR (The Danish Broadcasting Corporation)'s electro compilation, Radio Recordings Two in company with Trentemøller and the same year Unexploded performed at Roskilde Festival's Pavilion stage, a concert that was transmitted live on national cable networks in its entirety. In the years 2006-2008 Unexploded performed concerts around Denmark, amongst others a summer show at Rådhuspladsen.

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.