implode
The stadium, which lies on a fault line and is a seismic hazard, is begging for implosion.
The negotiations were stop and go, and marked abrupt implosions of attempted compromises.
The industry suffered an economic implosion.

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Exploding and erupting
blast
blow
blow (someone/something) up
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burst in on someone/something
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controlled explosion
detonate
erupt
explosion
explosively
explosiveness
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go off
go popidiom
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implode
pop
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Machines - Functioning

implosion | Business English

implosion
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ɪmˈpləʊʒən/us
a situation in which something fails suddenly and completely, or the fact of this happening:
an economic/financial/market implosion

Examples of implosion

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The full implosion process leading to the assumed initial conditions will be studied in another paper.
This provided significantly better stability and greater implosion of the plasma column.
These solutions will allow us to understand the effects of aspect ratio and compressibility during implosion.
These structures are clearly drawn at high values for electronic density near 10 31 m 3, corresponding to implosion states.
This was believed to be due to the longer implosion times allowing the wires to merge prior to acceleration.
X-ray radiography of the implosion was used to verifying that the system behaves in general as designed.
The inner and outer nozzle pressures were adjusted to achieve various radial distributions over a range of implosion times.
The array then adopts a more azimuthally symmetric implosion.
In order to regulate the implosion of shells by usual thermal ablation-compression, the selection of velocities around 4.5 x 107 cm s-1 is important.
Of course, such an implosion nonuniformity consists of both the velocity and position per turbations of the shell in a real implosion.
However, in the low density foam region, the radiation energy can be confined and the implosion non-uniformity is smoothed.
This should be adequate for the cryogenic implosion experiments planned for the system.
This measured lack of a coherent plasma shell prior to the radial implosion of the array motivated the use of increased wire number.
The application of an axial magnetic field is the well-known method for stabilizing plasma z-pinch implosions.
Influence of axial field is developed only in the final stage of implosion when the magnitudes of azimuthal and axial fields became approximately equal.
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