Explode

Quick meaning: Explode is a verb meaning (intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.

Meaning

(intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To increase suddenly.
3. (mathematics) To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.
4. (transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
5. (transitive) To create an exploded view of.
6. (transitive, archaic) To disprove or debunk.
7. (intransitive, figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.

Example Sentences

The bomb explodes.

She exploded when I criticised her hat.

The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.

When pigeons can come to a spot day in and day out for a guaranteed meal, their populations explode.

Word Forms

• explodes
• exploding
• exploded
• explodest
• explodedst
• explodeth

Synonyms for explode

Depending on context, synonyms include asplode, blast, blow, blow up, burst, detonate.

Antonyms for explode

Common opposites include implode, go off.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blow up, burst, detonate, set off, blasted, explosion.

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