Definitions for explode

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explode ex·plode

Spelling: [ik-splohd]

IPA: /ɪkˈsploʊd/

Explode is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in explode (deelopx).

Definitions for explode

verb (used with object)

1. to cause (gunpowder, a boiler, etc.) to explode.
2. to cause to be rejected; destroy the repute of; discredit or disprove:
3. Phonetics. to end with plosion.
4. Golf. to play an explosion shot on (a golf ball).
5. Obsolete. to drive (a player, play, etc.) from the stage by loud expressions of disapprobation.

verb (used without object)

1. to expand with force and noise because of rapid chemical change or decomposition, as gunpowder or nitroglycerine (opposed to implode).
2. to burst, fly into pieces, or break up violently with a loud report, as a boiler from excessive pressure of steam.
3. to burst forth violently or emotionally, especially with noise, laughter, violent speech, etc.:
4. Phonetics. (of plosives) to terminate the occlusive phase with a plosion. Compare implode (def 2).
5. Golf. to play an explosion shot on a golf ball.

Origin of explode

1530-40; Latin explōdere to drive off by clapping, drive away, equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + plod- variant stem of plaudere to clap, beat

Examples for explode

"La Liberté was no longer there to explode," Delcassé objected grimly.

It failed to explode, but U.S. officials knew they were lucky.

At that very moment the Arabella seemed to explode as she swept by.

Hurriedly he tried a half dozen more cartridges but they refused to explode.

Holmes: “I had five seconds from the time the pin falls off from that grenade until it will explode.”

The flame is so completely hollow that even it cannot explode the powder.

Angry Birds at its simplest was the same way, though you wanted to watch things collapse and explode.

"I ought to find the connection and explode it," repeated Caradoc doggedly.

Add in fiery preaching by anti-gay zealots, often funded by American organizations, and you have a volatile brew ready to explode.

Markov tells The Daily Beast he expects the situation in eastern Ukraine to explode in the coming two days.