(v. i.) To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.
(v. t.) To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.
(v. t.) To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine.
(v. t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
(v. t.) To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
(2) You can also blast individual eyeballs from their sockets, or – if you're particularly skilful – make their testicles explode like a pair of microwaved eggs.
(3) It exploded when leading daily El Pais published copies of account ledgers purportedly showing irregular payments to top party members including Rajoy, its leader since 2004.
(4) Roddy was told he wouldn't live beyond 30 and used to drive everywhere at full pelt while smoking exploding cigarettes.
(5) The smaller spheres and some of the cylinders exploded and fragments and even whole cylinders weighing around 30 tons, were scattered over distances ranging from a few to up to 1200 m.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Device explodes in New Jersey as robot attempts to disarm He said the chicken store had faced complaints and problems in 2012, when the city council and police ruled that it should close at 10pm.
(7) I remember seeing these exploding glass panels of blood, and thinking, 'Well, he's a relief.'"
(8) If Egypt explodes, the explosion will be much bigger, too.
(9) Mohammed Hanif, the award winning novelist, also parodied General Zia and his inner circle in his novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes .
(10) Simmering resentment towards the US presence on Okinawa exploded into anger in 1995 after three servicemen abducted and raped a 12-year-old girl , a crime that prompted lengthy negotiations on reducing the country's military footprint.
(11) Three minutes later the Arena Pernambuco exploded into a riot of noise and colour as Guardado made the game safe, calmly slotting home from six yards after Herrera’s pass had missed out Hernández.
(12) Visiting journalists were briefed by security officers on the latest attacks: five IEDs detonated or exploded in 48 hours; a car bomb discovered and detonated; and "a rash" of grenade attacks.
(13) So while Blackburn might have been surprised when City exploded into life just before the hour to take control with two excellent goals in two minutes, they could have no real complaints.
(14) It exploded in mid-air, sparking speculation it was downed accidentally by Ukranian military on exercises in Crimea.
(15) Such was its challenge that, when it was found in the library of a school run by the Inner London Education Authority in 1986, the fuss exploded and the book was subsequently cited as one of the spurs to the controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act of 1988.
(16) If a battery heats up beyond 80C you hit what is called thermal runaway, where the components start to decompose, and that’s when it can explode.” The specific cause of Samsung’s issues with exploding batteries is unknown, the company just cites “ a battery cell issue ”.
(17) After six minutes of reconnaissance, it exploded, briefly.
(18) He was acutely aware that his country would explode without the safety valve of democracy.
(19) Forest ecologists say it is no coincidence the Rim fire exploded through areas which had seen few or no blazes in almost a century – an unnatural absence since California's mountain flora evolved to burn .
(20) He said he had made the errors of judgment because his mind was on trying to save his marriage from "exploding".
Implosion
Definition:
(n.) A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.
(n.) A sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, //159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sound of b, d, and g, heard in Southern Germany.
Example Sentences:
(1) His message suggested a Grexit was now inevitable as he stressed the need for EU humanitarian programmes to forestall social implosion in Greece.
(2) Thus the main population explosion – or to give it its proper name, the population implosion – is still to come.
(3) While the Sala news was significant, it was overshadowed by the implosion of Raggi’s administration, in part because she holds the office with the highest profile in her party.
(4) Towards the end there's a sequence in which David Carr, the compellingly watchable media correspondent, is probing away at the circumstances behind the near-implosion of the Tribune company under its new owners, who seem to care little for the company's core journalistic traditions or mission.
(5) This paper presents the theoretical bases of the counterconditioning techniques of systematic desensitization and the extinction techniques of implosion therapy and flooding.
(6) If the workforce implosion includes the departure of senior managers, there is a loss of knowledge of history and previous learning and an inevitable hiatus in building a new organisational culture.
(7) The management of Abbey, Buxton said, had presided over the "implosion of the business, the need for an entirely new management team" and an offer from Santander that was lower than the two that were rejected.
(8) But pollsters, party operatives and confidantes agreed: the best set-up for a Biden moment would be a Clinton implosion – and it might be near.
(9) But after Walker’s campaign implosion showed that Super Pac money alone cannot compensate for a lack of buzz among supporters, Bush’s strategy may prove the ultimate test of whether the one-time establishment favourite can strong-arm himself back into the lead.
(10) On the face of it, the Hoosiers don't seem like victims of the music industry's implosion: the London-based band were given the full-on major label push in 2007, and sold a million records.
(11) Regardless, his 11-pitch at-bat against Clayton Kershaw in Game Six of the NLCS which set the stage for his implosion is now a moment of St Louis lore.
(12) We’ve always known there was a group of people within the Coalition who would have rather died with Tony Abbott than lived with Malcolm Turnbull, but it’s still startling to watch a political party indulging a public implosion when the stakes are so very high.
(13) Most experts attribute the revival to one factor above all: the adoption of multiple currencies, principally the US dollar, after the Zimbabwean dollar's implosion.
(14) 'It has no chance': Socialist party heading for implosion in French elections Read more The final-round battle between the two men will be a bruising encounter between two wings of the Socialist party, which has been bitterly divided throughout François Hollande’s troubled presidency.
(15) Somalia's implosion has not just threatened its own people: analysts say al-Shabaab poses a serious threat to the region.
(16) "A stalemate slanting towards the regime, or a situation that really resembles a rebel implosion.
(17) Despite cuts in educational budgets, increased student fees and the general implosion of the social fabric, the addiction persists.
(18) The immersion in water made a strong implosion visible which may result in considerable tissue damage in vivo.
(19) The new government was effectively imposed by Italy's octogenarian president Giorgio Napolitano , who was returned to an extraordinary second seven-year term in office by the implosion of the PD during the parliamentary presidential voting.
(20) Those conditions predate the current implosion in the euro group .