explode

Meaning

  1. To destroy with an explosion.
  2. To destroy violently or abruptly.
  3. To create an exploded view of.
  4. To disprove or debunk.
  5. To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
  6. To make a violent or emotional outburst.
  7. To increase suddenly.
  8. To emerge suddenly.
  9. (slang) To ejaculate.
  10. To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
  11. To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
  12. To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
  13. Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪkˈspləʊd/
Etymology

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.

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