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explode
verb
us/ɪkˈsploʊd/

explodeverb (BURST)

[ I/T ]
to burst violently and usually with a loud noise, or to cause this to happen:
[ I ]A bomb exploded nearby.
[ T ]Black holes are left behind by exploding stars called supernovas.
[ I ]fig. Yoga has exploded in popularity as a way to achieve physical and mental health.

explodeverb (SHOW EMOTION)

[ I ]
to show sudden violent emotion, esp. anger:
He exploded in anger when told his luggage had been lost.

explodeverb (INCREASE)

[ I ]
to increase very quickly:
The population is exploding in that part of the world.

explodeverb (PROVE FALSE)

[ T ]
to prove to be false or wrong:
She hopes that this book will explode myths about poverty and intelligence.

Examples of explode

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A 30-fs pulse was made to interact with a preformed plasma generated via the exploding foil technique from a 1-mm-thick plastic film.
The first result concerns dependence of the g-ray signal upon the thickness of the exploding foil target.
In an age when technology and materialism seemed to have undermined religious faith, a new 'modern spiritualism' was suddenly born, and it exploded into prominence.
Cross-arms are exploding laterally and, at the same time, moving to the center.
The first thermonuclear neutrons were obtained in 1981, when working with the target in the exploding pusher mode.
Her productive vocabulary exploded from 140 words at 1; 3 to 567 words at 1;6.
Special attention is given to the mechanism of interaction between the exploding bubbles, the attached cavity and the boundary layer.
The most common sources are exploding wires, electrical sparks and solid explosives.
By use of an effective dielectric constant, the modified nanoplasma model is very suitable for investigating the high-energy ions exploded from laser- cluster interactions.
We are also reminded that the waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time produced by violent energetic events such as exploding supernovae.
While human populations have grown, those of artefacts have exploded at an even greater rate.
Furthermore, as budgets remained unbalanced during in the 1980s and 1990s, public indebtedness exploded in most of the industrialized countries.
In other words, the vertex can be exploded.
A 7year-old boy was severely burned when the barbecue lighting fluid his father was using suddenly exploded over him.
The sensitivity for asymmetry in the ablative mode is essentially higher than that in exploding pusher mode.
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