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How to pronounce “explode”
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Pronunciation guide for explode
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of explode with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- A Memoir of Astrophysics
exploding Stars so stars that at the ends of their lives explode as Supernova and I'm
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
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How to pronounce explode
A Memoir of Astrophysics

exploding Stars so stars that at the ends of their lives explode as Supernova and I'm
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “explode”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
- (transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
- (transitive) To create an exploded view of.
- (transitive, archaic) To disprove or debunk.
- (intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase suddenly.
- (mathematics) To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To emerge suddenly.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
- (computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- (transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
- (intransitive, board gaming) Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
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