Explode
verb
Increase suddenly in number or quantity.
The internet business exploded.
Often appears as...
- explode in popularity
- explode onto the scene
verb
Blow up or break apart with a sudden and violent release of energy.
The bomb exploded.
Often appears as...
- explode a bomb
- explode into pieces
verb
React with sudden anger or strong emotion.
He exploded in rage.
Often appears as...
- explode with anger
- explode with rage
verb
Show that a belief or theory is wrong.
This study explodes the myth of women's inability in science.
Often appears as...
- explode a myth
- explode an assumption
Usage tips
Academic
verb
Increase suddenly in number or quantity.
The internet business exploded.
Often appears as...
- explode in popularity
- explode onto the scene
verb
Blow up or break apart with a sudden and violent release of energy.
The bomb exploded.
Often appears as...
- explode a bomb
- explode into pieces
verb
React with sudden anger or strong emotion.
He exploded in rage.
Often appears as...
- explode with anger
- explode with rage
verb
Show that a belief or theory is wrong.
This study explodes the myth of women's inability in science.
Often appears as...
- explode a myth
- explode an assumption
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Rapid Increase
Use when indicating a sudden and dramatic growth or expansion in business or trend.
After the product release, sales exploded.
Pro Tip 2/2Positive Surge
Often implies a successful or desirable increase in numbers or popularity.
Her following on social media exploded overnight.
Pro Tip 1/2Rapid Increase
Use when indicating a sudden and dramatic growth or expansion in business or trend.
After the product release, sales exploded.
Pro Tip 2/2Positive Surge
Often implies a successful or desirable increase in numbers or popularity.
Her following on social media exploded overnight.
Pro Tip 1/2Rapid Increase
Use when indicating a sudden and dramatic growth or expansion in business or trend.
After the product release, sales exploded.
Pro Tip 2/2Positive Surge
Often implies a successful or desirable increase in numbers or popularity.
Her following on social media exploded overnight.
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Robots Hunting for Life...
So you need something to protect you from essentially exploding or at least having your skin all stretched out, and the blood boiling and getting the bends, things like that. The way space suits are designed now, they're mostly pressurised spacecraft. Essentially, they're almost like a mini spaceship. Things like, how do you maintain water?
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Jonathan Foley: The...
Instead, we want to feed them more vegetable proteins. So soybeans have really exploded, showing how trade and globalization are really responsible for the connections to rainforests and the Amazon -- an incredibly strange and interconnected world that we have today. Well, again and again, what we find as we look
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The deadly irony of...
They quickly realized that this black powder, which they called fire medicine, was precisely the opposite of something that would make you live forever. In these early days, the Chinese hadn't yet figured out how to make the powder explode; it was simply very flammable, and their armies used it
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Rick Guidotti: From...
and I grabbed a mirror that was next to the set, and I held it up to her, and I said Christine, look at yourself. You're magnificent. And she looked in the mirror, and she got it. And she went from this to that. And that's our Christine, and she just exploded in front of the set.
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What are gravitational...
The collapse of a star before it explodes in a supernova, or a very dense neutron stars colliding. Every time we create a new tool to look at space, we discover something we didn't expect, something that might revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
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Avoiding desertification...
lot of people would said wow that's the most hopeful thing I've heard in ages what what has happened since then well things have exploded thanks to you by getting the word out to millions of people finally it's out in the public
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Origins of the Universe...
this tiny singularity violently exploded. And it is from this explosion, this bang, that all matter, energy, space, and time were created. What happened next were two major stages of the universe's evolution.
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Where did Earth’s water...
like beryllium, carbon and oxygen in a process known as nucleosynthesis. When stars eventually collapsed and exploded into supernovas, these new elements were spread across the universe
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Elephant Mating,...
And thousands are engulfed and destroyed. But the fittest survive, only to run into a protective cloud that shrouds the egg and causes some of the sperm to explode prematurely.
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How to detect a...
Just now, somewhere in the universe, a star exploded. There goes another one. In fact, a supernova occurs every second or so in the observable universe,
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Robots Hunting for Life...
So you need something to protect you from essentially exploding or at least having your skin all stretched out, and the blood boiling and getting the bends, things like that. The way space suits are designed now, they're mostly pressurised spacecraft. Essentially, they're almost like a mini spaceship. Things like, how do you maintain water?
Video examples
Jonathan Foley: The...
Instead, we want to feed them more vegetable proteins. So soybeans have really exploded, showing how trade and globalization are really responsible for the connections to rainforests and the Amazon -- an incredibly strange and interconnected world that we have today. Well, again and again, what we find as we look
Video examples
The deadly irony of...
They quickly realized that this black powder, which they called fire medicine, was precisely the opposite of something that would make you live forever. In these early days, the Chinese hadn't yet figured out how to make the powder explode; it was simply very flammable, and their armies used it
Video examples
Rick Guidotti: From...
and I grabbed a mirror that was next to the set, and I held it up to her, and I said Christine, look at yourself. You're magnificent. And she looked in the mirror, and she got it. And she went from this to that. And that's our Christine, and she just exploded in front of the set.
Video examples
What are gravitational...
The collapse of a star before it explodes in a supernova, or a very dense neutron stars colliding. Every time we create a new tool to look at space, we discover something we didn't expect, something that might revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
Video examples
Avoiding desertification...
lot of people would said wow that's the most hopeful thing I've heard in ages what what has happened since then well things have exploded thanks to you by getting the word out to millions of people finally it's out in the public
Video examples
Origins of the Universe...
this tiny singularity violently exploded. And it is from this explosion, this bang, that all matter, energy, space, and time were created. What happened next were two major stages of the universe's evolution.
Video examples
Where did Earth’s water...
like beryllium, carbon and oxygen in a process known as nucleosynthesis. When stars eventually collapsed and exploded into supernovas, these new elements were spread across the universe
Video examples
Elephant Mating,...
And thousands are engulfed and destroyed. But the fittest survive, only to run into a protective cloud that shrouds the egg and causes some of the sperm to explode prematurely.
Video examples
How to detect a...
Just now, somewhere in the universe, a star exploded. There goes another one. In fact, a supernova occurs every second or so in the observable universe,
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Tilda Swinton
English Actress
I'm a Marvel fan, and I think this particular world that 'Doctor Strange' goes into is really, really, really exciting. I'm really interested as both an actor and a fan to see what's done in this particular world. It's all about creativity. It's not about everything exploding at the end. It's about something very different.
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J. D. Vance
American Author
Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
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Jamie Lee Curtis
American Actress
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
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Paul Kagame
Rwandan Leader
You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But if you don't measure up and you are not really connected with your people... it will explode in your face, no question about it.
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Shonda Rhimes
American Producer
I truly feel like my job is to make the shows. That's what I'm paid to do. It's somebody else's job to market them, and it's somebody else's job to pay attention to the ratings, because if I paid attention to all that, my head would explode.
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Jason Mraz
American Musician
I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. My e-mail in-box exploded, and I don't have that kind of time. My mom and sister have their whole life on Facebook, and I'm not there.
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Shannon Purser
American Actress
I didn't even have a career before 'Stranger Things' - it was my first acting job, my first time on a professional set, and my character wasn't even supposed to be a big deal - it all just exploded.
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Alan Cumming
Scottish Actor
I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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Ben Affleck
American Actor
God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.
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Robert Mueller
American Public Servant
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
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Tilda Swinton
English Actress
I'm a Marvel fan, and I think this particular world that 'Doctor Strange' goes into is really, really, really exciting. I'm really interested as both an actor and a fan to see what's done in this particular world. It's all about creativity. It's not about everything exploding at the end. It's about something very different.
Quote examples
J. D. Vance
American Author
Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
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Jamie Lee Curtis
American Actress
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
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Paul Kagame
Rwandan Leader
You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But if you don't measure up and you are not really connected with your people... it will explode in your face, no question about it.
Quote examples
Shonda Rhimes
American Producer
I truly feel like my job is to make the shows. That's what I'm paid to do. It's somebody else's job to market them, and it's somebody else's job to pay attention to the ratings, because if I paid attention to all that, my head would explode.
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Jason Mraz
American Musician
I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. My e-mail in-box exploded, and I don't have that kind of time. My mom and sister have their whole life on Facebook, and I'm not there.
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Shannon Purser
American Actress
I didn't even have a career before 'Stranger Things' - it was my first acting job, my first time on a professional set, and my character wasn't even supposed to be a big deal - it all just exploded.
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Alan Cumming
Scottish Actor
I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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Ben Affleck
American Actor
God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.
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Robert Mueller
American Public Servant
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
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