To expand suddenly with great force, a loud noise and release energy because of strong inner pressure due to a violent chemical or physical reaction.
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Examples for "explode"
Examples for "explode"
1Water shortages are a global problem as populations soar and cities explode.
2Mark didn't want the situation to explode into something they'd all regret.
3He certainly hadn't made the lights explode simply by looking at them.
4Costs could explode because the bill sets crop support rates too high.
5The first shuttle to explode had actually not left the ship yet.
1I shall detonate it when the ship is in an optimum position.
2You need two people to enter the code simultaneously or it'll detonate.
3The note said: Don't go to the cops or I will detonate.
4Convinced I am a ticking bomb that could detonate at any moment.
5They'll be in a position to detonate their mines and devastate everything.
1It came to me suddenly: he meant to blow up the Intendance.
2First, he judged it necessary to blow up the bridge of Demir-Hissar.
3He could not blow up one of these bubbles on the spring.
4Gas of northern metaphysics to blow up Broad Church bishops like balloons.
5The wind begins to blow up sharply, though it was very pleasant.
1Cats and daenids and other more exotic things, like the rooks in the garret, all of them disploded with a gory popping sound.