dynamite

n.

1. Any of a class of powerful explosives composed of nitroglycerin or ammonium nitrate dispersed in an absorbent medium with a combustible dope, such as wood pulp, and an antacid, such as calcium carbonate, used in blasting and mining.

2. One that has a powerful effect

tr.v.

To blow up, shatter, or otherwise destroy with or as if with dynamite.