0 past simple and past participle of explode --
1 to break up into pieces violently, or to cause something to do this: --
2 to react suddenly with a strong expression of emotion: --
The children exploded into giggles (= suddenly started laughing uncontrollably).
[ + speech ] "What on earth do you think you're doing?" she exploded (= said angrily).
3 to increase very quickly: --
The population has exploded in the last ten years.
4 to show something to be wrong: --
This work may be relevant to a wide class of laser exploded foil plasma experiments.
A 7year-old boy was severely burned when the barbecue lighting fluid his father was using suddenly exploded over him.
In other words, the vertex can be exploded.
The canon has come very loose, if not yet exploded.
Instead, their introduction repeats some myths exploded there.
An oil lamp had exploded and the room caught fire.
Were these lost works to be found it seems more than likely that our present notion of the genre would be exploded.
In place of wars of national liberation or counter-insurgency, violence both exploded and imploded, through both transnational and sub-national armed conflicts.
