explode
verbEtymology
First recorded around 1538, from the Latin verb explōdere (“drive out or off by clapping”). The meaning was originally theatrical, "to drive an actor off the stage by making noise," hence meaning to "to drive out" or "to reject". From ex- (“out”) + plaudere (“to clap; to applaud”). In English it used to mean to "drive out with violence and sudden noise" (from around 1660), and later meaning to "go off with a loud noise" (from around 1790). The sense of "bursting with destructive force" is first recorded around 1882.
Definitions
To fly apart with sudden violent force
To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- The bomb explodes.
To destroy with an explosion.
- The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.
To make a violent or emotional outburst
To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.
- She exploded when I criticised her hat.
- Dobbin […] fell back in the crowd, crowing and sputtering until he reached a safe distance, when he exploded amongst the astonished market-people with shrieks of yelling laughter.
- “Nonsense!” Jack exploded at me. “Why Miss Bertram here knocked that theory into a cocked hat coming over on the train.”
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To increase suddenly.
- When pigeons can come to a spot day in and day out for a guaranteed meal, their populations explode.
- Despite these products typically costing more, the market for organic food has exploded over the last couple of decades.
To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.
- The function f(x) = 1/x explodes around x = 0.
To destroy violently or abruptly.
- They sought to explode the myth.
To create an exploded view of.
- Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.
To disprove or debunk.
- Astrology is required by many famous physicians […] doubted of, and exploded by others.
- [W]henever the person who is possessed of [natural goodness] doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.
- Another instance of the like nature is, that the old opinion, that Turks and infidels are perpetually to be considered as alien enemies, has been long exploded.
To emerge suddenly.
- to explode into the mainstream; to explode onto the scene
- A.I. text-to-image generators such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DALL-E exploded onto the scene this year and in mere months have become widely used to create all sorts of images, ranging from digital art pieces to character designs.
To ejaculate.
To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the…
To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- The third check uses the exploded data stored in the array $parts and the function checkdate() to test if the date is a valid calendar date.
To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
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A definitional loop anchored at explode. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at explode. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at explode
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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