explode
To fly apart with sudden violent forceTo fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
» The audience exploded with laughter.
Im Publikum gab es schallendes Gelächter.
Публика взорвалась смехом.
Публіка вибухнула сміхом.
Meaning
14 senses(intransitive)To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
The bomb explodes.
explodieren, platzen
взрыва́тьсяvzryvátʹsja, взорва́тьсяvzorvátʹsja
вибуха́тиvybuxáty, ви́бухнутиvýbuxnuty
cause to burst with a violent release of energy
(transitive)To destroy with an explosion.
The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.
sprengen, explodieren
взрыва́тьvzryvátʹ, взорва́тьvzorvátʹ
destroy by exploding
(figuratively, intransitive)To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.
She exploded when I criticised her hat.
(figuratively, intransitive)To increase suddenly.
increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner
To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.
The function f(x) = 1/x explodes around x = 0.
(transitive)To destroy violently or abruptly.
They sought to explode the myth.
взрыва́тьvzryvátʹ, взорва́тьvzorvátʹ
(transitive)To create an exploded view of.
Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.
(figuratively, intransitive)To emerge suddenly.
to explode into the mainstream; to explode onto the scene
be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
(slang, vulgar)To ejaculate.
To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
(transitive)To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
(transitive)To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
Examples
266 sentencesThe audience exploded with laughter.
Публіка вибухнула сміхом.
ruПублика взорвалась смехом.
deIm Publikum gab es schallendes Gelächter.
Tom exploded with laughter.
Том вибухнув сміхом.
I thought my head would explode.
ruЯ думал, у меня голова взорвётся.
Tom thought the burning car would explode.
I thought that my head would explode.
ruЯ думал, у меня голова взорвётся.
Translations
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Origin
First recorded around 1538, from the Latin verb explōdere (“drive out or off by clapping”)First recorded around 1538, from the Latin verb explōdere (“drive out or off by clapping”). The meaning was originally theatrical, "to drive an actor off the stage by making noise," hence meaning to "to drive out" or "to reject". From ex- (“out”) + plaudere (“to clap; to applaud”). In English it used to mean to "drive out with violence and sudden noise" (from around 1660), and later meaning to "go off with a loud noise" (from around 1790). The sense of "bursting with destructive force" is first recorded around 1882.
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Forms
explodes, exploding, exploded, explodedSynonyms
20 synonyms- increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner:irrupt
- burst outward, usually with noise:burst
- be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise:burst forthbreak loose
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy:detonateblow upset off
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction:detonateblow up
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
16 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
Collocations
3 patterns- the bomb exploded
- bomb exploded
- going to explode