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say it: ik-SPLOHD
explode is a verb meaning "cause to burst with a violent release of energy". It is pronounced /ɪkˈsploʊd/ — ik-SPLOHD. It carries 10 recorded senses.
“The champagne bottle exploded”
show a violent emotional reaction
“The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary”
be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
“His anger exploded”
cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/
drive from the stage by noisy disapproval
show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for explode come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.