implosion

implode | Business English

implode
verb[ I ]
uk /ɪmˈpləʊd/us
to fail suddenly and completely:
His campaign imploded during the summer amid charges of mismanagement and overspending.
an economy/industry/market implodesWhen contracts for the new bridge were being negotiated, the American steel industry imploded.

Examples of implode

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In place of wars of national liberation or counter-insurgency, violence both exploded and imploded, through both transnational and sub-national armed conflicts.
When the per turbation spike of the exterior marker sur face punctures the imploding ablation front, the marker spikes begin to burn away and decompress.
In fact, the path is ' imploding ' and, in the absence of significant data changes, the external debt should fall rapidly.
Characteristics of high-power radiating imploding discharge with cold start.
As revenues imploded and costs exploded, the company had to rely on bond sales and short-term borrowing to remain afloat.
On the other hand, in the shell impact concept, the compressed deuterium-tritium fuel is ignited by a separately imploded shell traveling in a guiding cone.
Rather, there are very concrete, tangible images imploding into one.
The considered cases refer to imploding cylinders of finite length.
The accelerated ions hence deposit their kinetic energies and momenta in the cone tip and the low density imploded plasma before reaching the dense core.
The rings are thus conjectured to be from radiating plasma produced by either electron-current flow into the imploding plasma shell or an associated ion heating of the cathode sur face.
Finally, a range of experiments have been per formed to generate quantitative radiation hydrodynamics data on the evolution of gross target defects, driven in both planar and imploding geometry.
The other escape was emitted from a tank that imploded.
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