All 10 Uses
massive
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- In August, about the time Harlon was drawing his pads and helmet, massive American air attacks began in Europe, and German planes pulverized Stalingrad.†
Chpt 4.massive = very large
- But the ink was scarcely dry on their signatures when Jack and Bob were assigned to the massive Navy training center in faraway Farragut, Idaho.†
Chpt 4.
- And yet a second, massive, "specialized city" within that Paradise.†
Chpt 5.
- From the hole, the muzzle of a massive gun would appear and discharge a heavy round.†
Chpt 7.
- Would there be enough to finance the unfinished business against the fanatical Japanese military in the Pacific—a conflict that still promised bloodshed on a massive scale?†
Chpt 15.
- Massive throngs, a "million-dollar cast" of Hollywood stars, and three days of patriotic fervor awaited them in Chicago, where several hundred thousand public and parochial schoolchildren had become volunteer bond salespeople.†
Chpt 16.
- On Saturday, May 19, 100,000 cheering people crammed themselves into the Chicago Loop for a massive rally.†
Chpt 16. *
- And it reflected the epic regard in which the public held the boys—a regard that manifested itself repeatedly in the massive crowds the boys drew; the almost universal wish to touch them.†
Chpt 16.
- She burst into an inferno of explosions and Niagaras of ignited gasoline; the massive concussions lifted her out of the water and shook her from side to side.†
Chpt 17.
- Then those massive bronze figures would have to be trucked back to Washington, there to be bolted and welded together into the final, unified piece.†
Chpt 18.
Definitions:
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(1)
(massive) very large in size, number, or effect
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In geology, massive can refer to a type of rock rather than the size of a rock.