explode
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (10)explodes, exploded, exploding
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy“We exploded the nuclear bomb”Synonyms: detonateblow upset offMore general change integrityMore specific dynamite, fulminateCauses detonate, blow up
- burst outward, usually with noise“The champagne bottle exploded”Synonyms: burstMore general change integrityMore specific go off, erupt, crump, detonate
- show a violent emotional reaction“The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary”More general react, respond
- be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise“His anger exploded”Synonyms: burst forthbreak looseMore general change state, turn
- destroy by exploding“The enemy exploded the bridge”More general destroy, ruin
- cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/More general pronounce, articulate
- 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“the bomb detonated at noon”“The Molotov cocktail exploded”Synonyms: detonateblow up
- increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner“The population of India is exploding”“The island's rodent population irrupted”Synonyms: irrupt
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Translations
Verb to explode
- Spanish
- explotar
- French
- exploser
- German
- explodieren
- Italian
- esplodere
- Portuguese
- explodir
- Turkish
- patlamak
- Russian
- взрыва́ться vzryvátʹsja
- Arabic
- اِنْفَجَرَ infajara
- Chinese
- 爆炸 bàozhà
- Dutch
- exploderen
21 more languages
- Polish
- wybuchnąć
- Swedish
- explodera
- Greek
- εκρήγνυμαι ekrígnymai
- Korean
- 폭발하다 pokbalhada
- Indonesian
- letup
- Vietnamese
- nổ
- Hungarian
- robban
- Portuguese (PT)
- explodir
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 爆炸 bàozhà
- Albanian
- pëlcas
- Catalan
- explotar
- Czech
- vybuchnout
- Danish
- eksplodere
- Esperanto
- eksplodi
- Finnish
- räjähtää
- Georgian
- აფეთქება apetkeba
- Hebrew
- הִתְפּוֹצֵץ hitpotséts
- Icelandic
- springa
- Kurdish
- teqîn
- Norwegian
- eksplodere
- Romanian
- exploda
Verb to destroy with an explosion
- Spanish
- explosionar
- French
- exploser
- German
- sprengen
- Italian
- far esplodere
- Portuguese
- explodir
- Russian
- взрыва́ть vzryvátʹ
- Dutch
- opblazen
- Polish
- wysadzać
- Swedish
- spränga
- Greek
- ανατινάζω anatinázo
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. explodere, explosum, to drive out, drive out a player by clapping; ex out + plaudere, plodere, to clap, strike, applaud: cf. OF. exploder. See Plausible.
1. To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as, gunpowder explodes.
2. To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.
3. To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.
1. To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play. obsolete
Him old and young Exploded, and seized with violent hands.— John Milton
2. To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine.
Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud.— Edmund Burke
To explode and exterminate dark atheism.— Bently.
3. To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
4. To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
But late the kindled powder did explode The massy ball and the brass tube unload.— Sir Richard Blackmore
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54