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# explosively

«explosively» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a sudden, loud and violent way, like an explosion, as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (explosively)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a sudden, loud and violent way, like an explosion, as in «The balloon burst explosively». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/explosively/#m1)

2) Very fast and with great energy, as in «The sprinter started explosively». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/explosively/#m2)

3) In a sudden angry way, as in «He reacted explosively». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/explosively/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, gases or chemicals that react explosively are dangerous and only experts handle them. In PE and sport, coaches say «push off explosively» for a strong start. In stories, a character who reacts explosively loses their temper. In maths and science, «grow explosively» means grow extremely fast.

### examples

- The volcano erupted explosively. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/explosively/#x1)
- The sprinter pushed off explosively from the blocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/explosively/#x2)
- The cola fizzed explosively when we added the mints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/explosively/#x3)
- Dad laughed explosively at the joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/explosively/#x4)
- The town's population grew explosively. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/explosively/#x5)
- She reacted explosively when her brother broke her model. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/explosively/#x6)

### note

Adverb from «explosive» and «explode». Spelling: «explo-sive-ly», keep the e before -ly.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «explosively» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/explosively/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.