displode

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English

Etymology

Latin displōdō, from dis- + plaudō.

Verb

displode (third-person singular simple present displodes, present participle disploding, simple past and past participle disploded)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To burst with a loud bang; to explode.
    • 1858, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality:
      disploding engines
  2. (archaic, transitive) To burst; to cause to explode]].
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
      In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

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