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Explode   /ɪksplˈoʊd/   Listen
verb
Explode  v. t.  
1.
To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play. (Obs.) "Him old and young Exploded, and seized with violent hands."
2.
To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine. "Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud." "To explode and exterminate dark atheism."
3.
To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
4.
To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder. "But late the kindled powder did explode The massy ball and the brass tube unload."


Explode  v. i.  (past & past part. exploded; pres. part. exploding)  
1.
To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as, gunpowder explodes.
2.
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.
3.
To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.





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"Explode" Quotes from Famous Books



... not a gentleman in other respects of exceptional brilliancy, possessed one quality that popularity-seekers might have envied him: the ability to explode on the slightest provocation into a laugh instinct with all the characteristics ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... moment! What if the chains should break under its enormous weight? The sudden fall of such a body would inevitably cause the gun-cotton to explode! ...
— Jules Verne's Classic Books • Jules Verne
... variety in the brilliancy of the shooting stars, from the weak telescopic sparks that vanish like a flash of lightning, to the incandescent bolides or fire-balls that explode in the atmosphere. ...
— Astronomy for Amateurs • Camille Flammarion
... said Susanna. "You must n't faint, or explode, or anything—but the lady he's engaged to in England is your old friend—that bold adventuress, ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... agreeable little device in clockwork. The tick, tick, tick suggested clockwork which had been planned to go a certain time, and then—then, for all I knew, ignite an explosive, and—blow up. It would be a charming solution to the puzzle if it were to explode while I stood there, in my nightshirt, looking on. It is true that the box weighed very little. Probably, as I have said, the whole affair would not have turned the scale at a couple of ounces. But then its very ...
— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various


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