explodes

/IH0 K S P L OW1 D Z/

verb

1
To destroy with an explosion.
“The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.”
syn:blast blow blow up burst
2
To destroy violently or abruptly.
“They sought to explode the myth.”
3
To create an exploded view of.
“Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.”
4
To disprove or debunk.
5
To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
“The bomb explodes.”
6
To make a violent or emotional outburst.
“She exploded when I criticised her hat.”
syn:blow up
7
To increase suddenly.
syn:blow up
8
(PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
9
To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
syn:unstring
10
To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.

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