| NOUN | substance | high explosive | a powerful chemical explosive that produces gas at a very high rate |
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| Meaning | A powerful chemical explosive that produces gas at a very high rate. | |
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| Narrower | disrupting explosive, bursting explosive | A high explosive that is used to damage the target that is under attack |
| Broader | explosive | A chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck |
| weapon of mass destruction, WMD, W.M.D. | A weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) | |
| Opposite | low explosive | An explosive with a low rate of combustion |
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