explode

About 1.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.

   The bomb explodes.

2. verb To destroy with an explosion.

   The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.

3. verb To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.

   She exploded when I criticised her hat.

4. verb To increase suddenly.
5. verb To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.

   The function f(x) = 1/x explodes around x = 0.

6. verb To destroy violently or abruptly.

   They sought to explode the myth.

7. verb To create an exploded view of.

   Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.

8. verb To disprove or debunk.

Similar words

blow up burst forth burst detonate break loose set off blasted explosion explosive blow

Often followed by

in the into with and at when on a

Word family

exploded exploder exploders explodes exploding