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dynamited

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verb

past tense of dynamite

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dynamited
Verb
  • What was formerly open pastureland has been razed and graded for home sites.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Residents of Sousi Tower, a prominent 15-story building, told The Associated Press that the Israeli army gave them around 20 minutes to grab their belongings and flee before warplanes razed the building.
    WAFAA SHURAFA, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Diseased or damaged branches can be removed anytime.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Know how to avoid injury from debris, contaminated water, carbon monoxide poisoning, electrocution, and damaged buildings and infrastructure.
    Staff reports, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Additionally, several existing dilapidated buildings on the site will be demolished and their concrete recycled and partly reused to realize the new structures.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Archaeologists believe that Ayscough's house was demolished after a fire destroyed it in the early 1800s – but its remains have only just been uncovered in new excavations.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The wrecked streetcar is colored yellow and white and was named the Elevador da Gloria.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
  • He was found in Laughry Creek near the wrecked SUV and was dressed in only his underwear, the prosecutor said.
    Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Alternatively, a star being ripped apart in TDE could produce a day-long GRB, but this scenario fails to replicate other properties of the GRB 250702B, an explosion that would require a very unusual star being destroyed by an even stranger black hole.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Hadid was commissioned to design it for a fire brigade on the Vitra Campus after a major 1981 fire destroyed most of the complex, which originally consisted of factory buildings but is now a collection of contemporary design and architecture showrooms.
    Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Video from local news stations showed mangled train cars, some stacked atop each other, and smoke from grass fires drifting into the surrounding rural area.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Abelardo raced outside to find his brother inside the mangled Corolla.
    Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Alice Tully Hall Jazzman Etienne Charles tells the story of the neighborhood that Lincoln Center obliterated in a symphonic-scale quilt of Black American styles.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • On the night of March 19, 2023, Vladimir Putin flew in for his first and only visit to Mariupol, the Ukrainian city that Russian forces had obliterated a year earlier.
    Yegor Mostovshikov, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But lifting these restrictions alone will not be enough to save Gaza’s devastated population.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This leads to a devastated Scorsese, who is fiercely defended by the actual Charlize Theron.
    Carson Blackwelder, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
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