infernal machine

1. 1.

   a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time

   Synonymstime bomb

   Broaderbomb

Questions about infernal machine

What does infernal machine mean?

infernal machine means "a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time".

What is another word for infernal machine?

Close synonyms include time bomb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is infernal machine a common word?

infernal machine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.