implode

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To collapse or burst inward violently.

   The submarine imploded as it sank below its crush depth.

2. verb To suddenly lose support in all areas of a campaign simultaneously.

   Ragusa's campaign imploded after she confused coal mining with oil drilling during a speech.

3. verb To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.
4. verb The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.
5. verb To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.

Similar words

go off melt chinese fall in shrivel collapse break down explode blow up displode

Often followed by

and in the into with on from or as

Word family

imploded implodes imploding