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Definition explode

Etymology

First recorded around 1538, from the Latin verb expl?dere meaning to "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.

Verb

explode (third-person singular simple present explodes, present participle exploding, simple past and past participle exploded)

1. (transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
2. (transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
3. (transitive) To create an exploded view of.
4. (transitive, archaic) To disprove or debunk.
5. (intransitive) To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
6. (figuratively, intransitive) To make a violent or emotional outburst.
7. (figuratively, intransitive) To increase suddenly.
8. (computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
9. (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
10. (transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.

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