explode
asplode, esplode (both non-standard)
First recorded around 1538, from the Latin verb explōdere (“drive out or off by clapping”). The meaning was originally theatrical, "to drive an actor off the stage by making noise," hence meaning to "to drive out" or "to reject". 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.
(UK) IPA(key): /ɪkˈspləʊd/
(US) IPA(key): /ɪkˈsploʊd/
Rhymes: -əʊd
explode (third-person singular simple present explodes, present participle exploding, simple past and past participle exploded)
(transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
Synonyms: blow up, blow, blast, burst
(transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
(transitive) To create an exploded view of.
(transitive, archaic) To disprove or debunk.
, II, 344
Astrology is required by many famous physicians […] doubted of, and exploded by others.
(intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
(intransitive, figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst.
Synonym: blow up
1902, Albert R. Carman, “My Bridal Trip” (short story), in The Canadian Magazine, Volume 20, Number 1 (November 1902), page 15:
“Nonsense!” Jack exploded at me. “Why Miss Bertram here knocked that theory into a cocked hat coming over on the train.”
(intransitive, figuratively) To increase suddenly.
Synonym: blow up
(intransitive, figuratively) To emerge suddenly.
Synonym: burst
(slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
(computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
Synonyms: split, (COBOL) unstring
(transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
Synonym: unstring
(transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
(intransitive, board gaming) Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
explosion
explosive
implode
implosive
applaud
explōde
second-person singular present active imperative of explōdō
explode
inflection of explodir:
third-person singular present indicative
second-person singular imperative