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The synonyms of “Explode” are: blow up, detonate, set off, irrupt, break loose, burst forth, burst, blow, burst apart, fly apart, fly into pieces, shatter, go off, erupt, let off, discharge, touch off, trigger, trigger off, fire off, let fly, lose one's temper, give vent to one's feelings, rage, rant and rave, storm, bluster, get angry, become enraged, go into a rage, go berserk, increase suddenly, increase rapidly, increase dramatically, mushroom, snowball, escalate, multiply, burgeon, rocket, shoot up, accelerate, heighten, disprove, refute, deny, rebut, invalidate, gainsay, negate, repudiate, discredit, debunk, belie, give the lie to, expose, deflate, puncture, quash, contradict, ridicule
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “explode” as a verb can have the following definitions:
accelerate | (especially of a vehicle) begin to move more quickly. Inflation started to accelerate. |
become enraged | Enter or assume a certain state or condition. |
belie | (of an appearance) fail to give a true impression of (something. His lively alert manner belied his years. |
blow | Be blowing or storming. The aircraft was blown apart by a bomb. |
blow up | Cause air to go in, on, or through. |
bluster | Show off. I don t care what he says I blustered. |
break loose | Crack; of the male voice in puberty. |
burgeon | Grow and flourish. The city s suburbs have burgeoned sprawling out from the centre. |
burst | Cause to burst. One of the balloons burst. |
burst apart | Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up. |
burst forth | Move suddenly, energetically, or violently. |
contradict | Be in contradiction with. He did not contradict what he said last week. |
debunk | Reduce the inflated reputation of (someone. She debunks all the usual rubbish about acting. |
deflate | Become deflated or flaccid as by losing air. The balloons deflated. |
deny | Deny formally an allegation of fact by the opposing party in a legal suit. There was no way that I was going to deny myself ice cream. |
detonate | Burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction. The bomb detonated at noon. |
discharge | Go off or discharge. She was conditionally discharged for two years at Oxford Crown Court. |
discredit | Cause to be distrusted or disbelieved. His explanation for the phenomenon was soon discredited. |
disprove | Prove to be false. The physicist disproved his colleagues theories. |
erupt | Erupt or intensify suddenly. Fierce fighting erupted between the army and guerrillas. |
escalate | Increase in extent or intensity. The disturbance escalated into a full scale riot. |
expose | Expose to light of photographic film. The situation exposed a conflict within the government. |
fire off | Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position. |
fly apart | Decrease rapidly and disappear. |
fly into pieces | Transport by aeroplane. |
gainsay | Deny or contradict (a fact or statement. None could gainsay her. |
get angry | Reach and board. |
give the lie to | Endure the loss of. |
give vent to one's feelings | Perform for an audience. |
go berserk | Have a particular form. |
go into a rage | Be abolished or discarded. |
go off | Progress by being changed. |
heighten | Increase. The tension heightened. |
increase dramatically | Become bigger or greater in amount. |
increase rapidly | Make bigger or more. |
increase suddenly | Become bigger or greater in amount. |
invalidate | Deprive (an official document or procedure) of legal validity because it contravenes a regulation or law. A technical flaw in her papers invalidated her nomination. |
irrupt | (of a bird or other animal) migrate into an area in abnormally large numbers. The island s rodent population irrupted. |
let fly | Leave unchanged. |
let off | Leave unchanged. |
lose one's temper | Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense. |
multiply | (of an animal or other organism) increase in number by reproducing. Multiply 10 by 15. |
mushroom | Pick or gather mushrooms. The problem mushroomed. |
negate | Make (a clause, sentence, or proposition) negative in meaning. This action will negate the effect of my efforts. |
puncture | Be pierced or punctured. The tire punctured. |
quash | Declare invalid. A hospital executive quashed rumours that nursing staff will lose jobs. |
rage | Be violent; as of fires and storms. He raged at the futility of it all. |
rant and rave | Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner. |
rebut | Drive back or repel (a person or attack. But he their sharp assault right boldly did rebut. |
refute | Prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove. His voice challenging his audience to rise and refute him. |
repudiate | (in the past or in non-Christian religions) disown or divorce (one’s wife. She repudiated the accusations. |
ridicule | Subject to laughter or ridicule. The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house. |
rocket | Propel with a rocket. The city was rocketed and bombed from the air. |
set off | Decide upon or fix definitely. |
shatter | Break into many pieces. Shatter the plate. |
shoot up | Measure the altitude of by using a sextant. |
snowball | Throw snowballs at. I made sure the other kids stopped snowballing Celia. |
storm | Attack by storm attack suddenly. Don t patronize me she stormed. |
touch off | To extend as far as. |
trigger | Release or pull the trigger on. An allergy can be triggered by stress or overwork. |
trigger off | Put in motion or move to act. |
ammunition | Information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint. Guns ammunition and explosives. |
anthracite | Coal of a hard variety that contains relatively pure carbon and burns with little flame and smoke. A wide range of colours from anthracite to blush pink. |
atomic | Weapons deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy. The atomic age required a new way of political thinking. |
blast | A strong current of air used in smelting. The car was blasted thirty feet into the sky. |
bomb | Attack a place or object with a bomb or bombs. It just became another big budget film that bombed. |
burst | Burst outward usually with noise. She burst on to the British art scene in 1985. |
cannon | Make a cannon. The couple behind almost cannoned into us. |
coke | Convert coal into coke. Petroleum oils coke after distillation. |
decompression | The process of expanding computer data to its normal size so that it can be read by a computer. This disk contains a number of utilities which require decompression. |
detonate | Explode or cause to explode. Two other bombs failed to detonate. |
detonation | The action of causing a bomb or explosive device to explode. She was in a control building at the time of detonation. |
erupt | Erupt or intensify suddenly. Fierce fighting erupted between the army and guerrillas. |
eruption | A sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition. Irritable skin eruptions. |
explosion | The noise caused by an explosion. Three explosions damaged buildings at the barracks. |
explosive | A substance which can be made to explode, especially any of those used in bombs or shells. The idea was politically explosive. |
firearm | A portable gun. He wore his firearm in a shoulder holster. |
firework | An outburst of anger, or a display of great skill or energy. A firework display. |
flak | Anti-aircraft fire. You must be strong enough to take the flak if things go wrong. |
fulminate | A salt or ester of fulminic acid. Thunder fulminated around the house. |
grenade | A glass receptacle containing chemicals which are released when the receptacle is thrown and broken, used for testing drains and extinguishing fires. |
implode | Collapse or cause to collapse violently inwards. He lost money when the market imploded. |
kindle | Cause to start burning. The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds. |
nuclear | Denoting possessing or involving weapons using nuclear energy. Nuclear weapons. |
ordnance | Military supplies. The gun was a brand new piece of ordnance. |
outburst | A sudden violent disturbance. A wild outburst of applause. |
pyrotechnic | Relating to fireworks. Pyrotechnic keyboard virtuosity. |
pyrotechnics | A brilliant performance or display of a specified skill. He thrilled his audience with vocal pyrotechnics. |
scald | Any of a number of plant diseases which produce an effect similar to that of scalding especially a disease of fruit marked by browning and caused by excessive sunlight bad storage conditions or atmospheric pollution. Scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled. |
supernova | A star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process. |
thermonuclear | Relating to or involving weapons in which explosive force is produced by thermonuclear reactions. Thermonuclear fusion. |
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