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INFERNAL MACHINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time
Synonyms:
infernal machine; time bomb
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("infernal machine" is a kind of...):
bomb (an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions)