(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 .
Inrush
Definition:
(n.) A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide.
(v. i.) To rush in.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a great claim by the keeper at the feet of the inrushing striker, no more, no less.
(2) Opening of the cage's feed and water ports causes an inrush of high velocity air which prevents back-migration of aerosols and permits feeding and watering while eliminating need for chemical vapor decontamination.
(3) Nevertheless the demonstration was of an imposing character and the inrush of visitors to the city immense.
(4) His cross is met by the head of the inrushing Evra, making good from the left wing.
(5) Afghanistan's got to take more responsibility for its own affairs, but Pakistan's got to be involved more directly in the battle against this terrorist inrush into Afghanistan."
(6) With the inrush of new data the recent clear division of neural, hormonal and immunological regulation has been seriously complicated.