explode

Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspləʊd/

The English word “explode” has 14 meanings listed here.

verb

To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
To destroy with an explosion.
To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.
To increase suddenly.
To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.
To destroy violently or abruptly.
To create an exploded view of.
To disprove or debunk.
To emerge suddenly.
To ejaculate.
To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.

Etymology

From ex- (“out”) + plaudere (“to clap; to applaud”). In English it used to mean to "drive out with violence and sudden noise" (from around 1660), and later meaning to "go off with a loud noise" (from around 1790). The sense of "bursting with destructive force" is first recorded around 1882.

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