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单词 explode
释义

explode

/ɪkˈspləʊd / /ɛkˈspləʊd/
verb [no object]
1Burst or shatter violently and noisily as a result of rapid combustion, excessive internal pressure, or other process: an ammunition lorry exploded with a roar [with object]: Britain had not yet exploded her first nuclear weapon...
  • The bottle must have been slightly warm causing it to explode like a pressure bomb.
  • The plane's jet engines started with a bang, sounding like a bomb exploding in the fuselage.
  • The approaching tanks exploded in rapid succession and burst into flames.

Synonyms

blow up, detonate, blow, burst (apart), fly apart, fly into pieces, shatter, go off, erupt;
bang, crack, boom
informal go bang
literary fulminate
detonate, set off, let off, discharge, touch off, trigger (off), fire off, let fly
1.1 technical Undergo a violent expansion in which much energy is released as a shock wave: lead ensures that petrol burns rather than explodes...
  • The laser heats the surrounding air so fast it explodes, causing a shock wave.
  • The fuel inside the tanker exploded and the shockwave from the blast boosted Ravena's speed.
  • One of the reactors exploded and released huge doses of radiation.
1.2 (as adjective exploded) (Of a diagram) showing the components of a mechanism in the normal relative positions but slightly separated from each other: an exploded diagram of the rifle’s parts...
  • It included an exploded diagram of a typical brick built house and it was interesting to see all the doublings of the various cavities.
  • A simple sheet with even just an exploded diagram as included with many cases these days, would go a long way to improving a novice's experience with this case.
  • For every birdhouse, you'll find a photo, an exploded diagram of all sides, and simple instructions.
2(Of a violent emotion or a situation) arise or develop suddenly: tension which could explode into violence at any time...
  • It means any situation can explode from a simple operation to a full-scale two hour fight.
  • A feeling suddenly exploded inside of him, and he rose, pulled on pants and a shirt, and went out to tack Shiloh.
  • Fortunately, we were interrupted before the situation exploded.
2.1(Of a person) suddenly give expression to violent emotion, especially anger: he exploded with rage [with direct speech]: ‘This is ludicrous!’ she exploded...
  • Surely, she wouldn't explode with anger and stomp off?
  • His fears and frustrations bottled up since the nightmare had begun, he suddenly exploded with fury and savage emotion.
  • I was so furious when I read the number that I very nearly exploded with rage.

Synonyms

lose one's temper, give vent to one's feelings, blow up, rage, rant and rave, storm, bluster, get angry, become enraged, go into a rage, go berserk
informal fly off the handle, hit the roof, go through the roof, go up the wall, blow one's cool/top, blow a fuse/gasket, flip one's lid, freak out, go wild, go bananas, see red, go off the deep end, lose one's rag, go ape, burst a blood vessel
British informal go spare, go crackers, do one's nut, get one's knickers in a twist, throw a wobbly
North American informal blow one's lid/stack
2.2 (explode into) Suddenly begin to move or start a new activity: workers exploded into action as trade revived...
  • He stepped up and got down to business; getting a feel, slowly working up a rhythm, dropping snippets of familiar tracks, then suddenly exploding into action.
  • Just as he's hypnotised you into his intimate world, the closing track suddenly explodes into ear-blistering Finnish-language opera.
  • Carefully counting out her remaining coins on the table, the woman suddenly exploded into argument.
3Increase suddenly in size, number, or extent: the use of this drug exploded in the nineties...
  • Their project explores how we should respond to the fact the modern city has exploded in size from the manageable to the unimaginable.
  • The population exploded, increasing from 48,000 in 1970 to 226,000 in 1990.
  • Type 2 diabetes has exploded because of the increasing prevalence of both obesity and sedentary lifestyles.

Synonyms

increase suddenly, increase rapidly, increase dramatically, mushroom, snowball, escalate, multiply, burgeon, rocket, shoot up, accelerate, heighten
4 [with object] Show (a belief or theory) to be false or unfounded: the myths that link smoking with glamour need to be exploded...
  • This totally explodes the theory of a long life necessarily being a lazy one.
  • They exploded the belief that the recurrence of periods of bad business was caused by a scarcity of money and by a general overproduction.
  • Already their research has helped to explode long-held theories about the history of disease.

Synonyms

disprove, refute, deny, rebut, invalidate, gainsay, negate, repudiate, discredit, debunk, belie, give the lie to, expose, deflate, puncture, quash, contradict, ridicule;
blow up, blow sky-high, knock the bottom out of, drive a coach and horses through, cut down to size, pick holes in
informal shoot full of holes, shoot down (in flames), blow out of the water
rare controvert, confute, negative

Derivatives

exploder

noun ...
  • Scots are ‘exploders’, given to frequent flashes of temper, while the English and Welsh to are ‘imploders’, bottling their emotions up until there is a sudden rush of blood to the head.
  • He offered the definition of cyberstalking as harassment on the Internet using various modes of transmission such as electronic mail, chat rooms, newsgroups and mail exploders.
  • Through the use of Web pages, mail exploders, and newsgroups, the same individual can become a pamphleteer.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense 'reject scornfully'): from Latin explodere 'drive out by clapping, hiss off the stage', from ex- 'out' + plaudere 'to clap'. sense 4 is derived from the original sense of the word. sense 1 (late 18th century) evolved via an old sense 'expel with violence and sudden noise', perhaps influenced by obsolete displode 'burst with a noise'.

  • In Roman days bad performers were exploded, for explode comes from Latin explodere ‘to drive off with hissing or clapping, to boo off the stage’, from ex- ‘out’ and plaudere ‘to clap’ (see plaudit). Early meanings of explode were ‘to reject scornfully’, and ‘to show to be false’ (still used in phrases like explode a theory). The modern sense appeared in the late 18th century via the sense ‘to force out violently and noisily’. Implode was formed on the pattern of explode in the late 19th century using in- ‘within’.

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