dynamiter

American  

[dahy-nuh-mahyt-er] / ˈdaɪ nəˌmaɪt ər /

noun

plural

dynamiters

1. a person who uses dynamite or other explosives to blow things up.

2. a person who thoroughly and suddenly destroys a specified thing.

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Example Sentences

Standing at the site of the Atlanta temple blast, Mayor William B. Hartsfield declared, “Every political rabble-rouser is the godfather of every sneaking cross-burner and dynamiter at work in the South today.”

From The New Yorker

Its signatories were a convicted dynamiter, a handful of minor poets, journalists and schoolmasters, a junior corporation official, and a Syndicalist leader.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Austin, M.P. for West Limerick, complained that the defendants had published a libel concerning him, in a paragraph stating that in a speech he had sympathised with dynamiters. 

From Project Gutenberg

At the pendulum-swinging instant, the collegian had seen the sputtering flare of a match in the dynamiter's hands; and in the dash across the dam he had a whiff of burning gunpowder.

From Project Gutenberg

They are not particularly afraid of dynamiters or any other kind of assassins, and although poor—among kings—they manage to have a fairly good time on wheels.

From Project Gutenberg