dynamiter
Americannoun
plural
dynamiters-
a person who uses dynamite or other explosives to blow things up.
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a person who thoroughly and suddenly destroys a specified thing.
Example Sentences
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At the Philharmonic, he gradually broadened his repertoire to include a variety of musical styles; in opera the would-be dynamiter turned out to be an effective Wagnerian.
From Time Magazine Archive
James B. McNamara never intended to be a dynamiter.
From Time Magazine Archive
A fellow dynamiter named Matthew Schmidt also got life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foxes are those who sell by mail; the dynamiter works by telephone.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plainer way of putting it is this: that here, in the hour of his earthly victory, there dies in him the old mere denier, the mere dynamiter of criticism.
From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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