explode

/ɪkˈsploʊd/ verb B2

To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off. (intransitive) · The bomb explodes.
To destroy with an explosion. (transitive) · The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.
To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger. (figuratively, intransitive) · She exploded when I criticised her hat.
To increase suddenly. (figuratively, intransitive)
To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly. · The function f(x) = 1/x explodes around x = 0.
To destroy violently or abruptly. (transitive) · They sought to explode the myth.
To create an exploded view of. (transitive) · Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.
To emerge suddenly. (figuratively, intransitive) · to explode into the mainstream; to explode onto the scene

Plural explode · He/she/it explodes · Past exploded · Past participle exploded · -ing form exploding

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Verb forms

Base form: explode
He/she/it: explodes
Past: exploded
Past participle: exploded
-ing form: exploding

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Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.

The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 160 · C1

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 59 · B2

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