The meaning of EXPLODE is to burst forth with sudden violence or noise from internal energy. How to use explode in a sentence. Did you know?
If an object such as a bomb explodes or if someone or something explodes it, it bursts loudly and with great force, often causing damage or injury. They were clearing up when the second bomb exploded. [VERB] A school bus was hit by gunfire which exploded the fuel tank. [VERB noun]
EXPLODE definition: 1. to break up into pieces violently, or to cause something to do this: 2. to react suddenly with…. Learn more.
Definition of explode verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive, transitive] to burst (= break apart) or make something burst loudly and violently, causing damage synonym blow up. A second bomb exploded in a crowded market. The firework exploded in his hand.
- to destroy or be destroyed in this manner: to explode a bridge. 3. (Chemistry) (of a gas) to undergo or cause (a gas) to undergo a sudden violent expansion, accompanied by heat, light, a shock wave, and a loud noise, as a result of a fast uncontrolled exothermic chemical or nuclear reaction.
explode (third-person singular simple present explodes, present participle exploding, simple past and past participle exploded) (intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
to move or act suddenly and quickly with force: [no object] to explode in laughter. disprove:[~ + object] The new findings about the solar system explode the present theories. See -plaud-, -plod-. ex plode (ik splōd′), v., -plod ed, -plod ing.