Anagrams of: DEPOLISHING_

• cause to burst with a violent release of energy

• burst outward, usually with noise

• show a violent emotional reaction

• be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise

• destroy by exploding

• cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/

• drive from the stage by noisy disapproval

• show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete

• burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction

• increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner

• The xiphoid process.

• Shaped like a sword, ensiform.

• Of or relating to the xiphisternum.

• (chiefly Britain) The face.

• admiration for women

• the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation

• a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa

• a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor

• a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years

• any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers

• the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

• leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops (1840-1904)

• (Old Testament) the 11th son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel; Jacob gave Joseph a coat of many colors, which made his brothers jealous and they sold him into slavery in Egypt

• (New Testament) husband of Mary and (in Christian belief) the foster father of Jesus