Definitions for explodes

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explodes ex·plode

Spelling: [ik-splohd]

IPA: /ɪkˈsploʊd/

Explodes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in explodes (deelopsx).

Definitions for explodes

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 explodes

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 explodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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