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单词 implode
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(ɪmploʊd)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense implodes, present participle imploding, past tense, past participle imploded
1. verb
If something implodes, it collapses into itself in a sudden and violent way.
The engine imploded. [VERB]
He has nightmares about the tanks imploding. [VERB]
2. verb
If something such as an organization or a system implodes, it suddenly ends completely because it cannot deal with the problems it is experiencing.
...the possibility that the party may implode in opposition. [VERB]

implode in British English

(ɪmˈpləʊd)
verb
1. 
to collapse or cause to collapse inwards in a violent manner as a result of external pressure
the vacuum flask imploded
2. (transitive)
to pronounce (a consonant) with or by implosion
Compare explode
Word origin
C19: from im- + (ex)plode

implode in American English

(ɪmˈploʊd)
verb transitiveWord forms: imˈploded or imˈploding
1. 
to cause to burst or collapse inward
2.  Phonetics
to articulate by implosion
verb intransitive
3. 
to burst or collapse inward
Word origin
< in-1 + explode

Examples of 'implode' in a sentence
implode

You are subjected to the terror that will completely implode on your life.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There was a reason the party did not implode after his conference speech.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
As the days and games tick by, perhaps they will implode under the pressure of expectation.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
More recently he warned that without more funding for family courts, the system would implode.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The world financial system will not implode, thanks in part to vigorous government actions to shore up banks.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But both, in their various ways, imploded.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Yet Norwich's defensive frailties were exposed once again as they imploded under minimal pressure from the opposition.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The centre-left party has imploded since leading Greece into crisis with scores of its members defecting to other parties.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
And he has warned they only have to look at the way the French imploded in 2010 to see how the wheels can come off.
The Sun (2014)
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