Explode

Verb

 * 1)  To create an explosion, usually resulting in the destruction of an intended target.
 * The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.
 * 1)  To destroy violently or abruptly.
 * They sought to explode the myth of...
 * 1)  To create an exploded view.
 * Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.
 * 1)  To disprove or debunk.
 * 2) * Burton, Robert, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II, 344
 * Astrology is required by many famous physicians... doubted of, and exploded by others.
 * 1)  To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
 * The bomb explodes.

Adverbs for Explode
indignantly;  successfully;   prematurely; squarely; sharply; terrifically; volcanically; frightfully; violently; tremendously; initially; deafeningly; horribly; titanically; dreadfully; disastrously; catastrophically.

Thesaurus
backfire, bang, bark, be angry, be excitable, belie, bellow, blast, blow a fuse, blow a gasket, blow out, blow sky-high, blow up, break out, burst, burst forth, bust, catch fire, catch the infection, coal, come apart, come to nothing, crack, debunk, deflate, detonate, discharge, disconfirm, discredit, disprove, erupt, excite easily, expose, fail miserably, feed, fill up, fire, fire up, fizz out, fizzle, fizzle out, flame up, flare up, flash up, flip, fly apart, fly out, freak out, fuel, fuel up, fulminate, get excited, get nowhere, go into hysterics, go off, go phut, hang up, have a tantrum, hit the ceiling, invalidate, let off, misfire, mushroom, negate, negative, oil, poop out, pop, prove the contrary, puncture, rage, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rave, refuel, refute, reject, repudiate, run a temperature, seethe, set off, shoot, show up, smolder, stoke, storm, take fire, top off, touch off, turn a hair, undercut

Alternative forms

 * asplode, assplode, esplode, essplode, kursplode, kersplode (all humorous)

Etymology
First recorded around 1538, from the verb explōdere 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- meaning "out" + plaudere meaning "to clap" or "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.

Translations

 * Danish: sprænge, få til at eksplodere
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: აფეთქება
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: robbant, felrobbant, szétrobbant
 * Ido:


 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: పేల్చివేయు (pealchiveayu)
 * Welsh: ffrwydro
 * Welsh: ffrwydro


 * Danish: afsløre, forkaste
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:, leront


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: взорвать, взрывать


 * Arabic: انفجر
 * Chinese:, 爆發,  爆发
 * Czech:
 * Danish: eksplodere, springe
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: აფეთქება
 * German:


 * Hungarian:, , szétrobban
 * Ido:
 * Japanese: 爆発する
 * Norwegian: eksplodere
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian: взорваться, взрываться
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పేలిపోవు (pealipoavu)
 * Telugu: పేలిపోవు (pealipoavu)