explode
US: /ɪksˈpɫoʊd/
UK: /ɛksplˈəʊd/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
explode /iks'ploud/- ngoại động từ
- làm nổ
- đập tan, làm tiêu tan (lý tưởng, ảo tưởng...)
- nội động từ
- nổ, nổ tung (bom, đạn...); nổ bùng
- to explode with anger: nổi giận đùng đùng
- nổ, nổ tung (bom, đạn...); nổ bùng
Advanced English dictionary
+ verbburst violently
1 to burst or make sth burst loudly and violently, causing damage
Synonym: BLOW UP
[V] Bombs were exploding all around the city. + The firework exploded in his hand. + [VN] There was a huge bang as if someone had exploded a rocket outside. + Bomb disposal experts exploded the device under controlled conditions.
Compare: IMPLODE
get angry / dangerous
2 ~ (into / with sth) (of a person or situation) to suddenly become very angry or dangerous: [V] Suddenly Charles exploded with rage. + The protest exploded into a riot. + Tension between the two sides could explode at any time. + [V speech] 'Of course there's something wrong!' Jem exploded.
express emotion
3 [V] ~ (into / with sth) to suddenly express an emotion: We all exploded into wild laughter.
move suddenly
4 [V] ~ (into sth) to suddenly and quickly do sth; to move suddenly with a lot of force: After ten minutes the game exploded into life.
make loud noise
5 [V] to make a sudden very loud noise: Thunder exploded overhead.
increase quickly
6 [V] to increase suddenly and very quickly in number: the exploding world population
show sth is not true
7 [VN] to show that sth is not true, especially sth that people believe: At last, a women's magazine to explode the myth that thin equals beautiful.
WORD FAMILY
explode v.
explosion n.
explosive adj., n.
unexploded adj.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 blow up, burst, blast, fly apart, go off, erupt, fulminate; set off, detonate:
Police exploded the bomb after clearing the area. Rockets exploded in the night sky.
2 reject, discredit, refute, repudiate, disprove, debunk, belie, give the lie to, Slang pick holes in, poke or shoot full of holes:
Ptolemy's geocentric theory has been thoroughly exploded.
3 lose one's temper, rant, rave, rage, storm, throw a tantrum, Colloq get into a tizzy, blow one's top, fly off the handle, go through or hit the roof, hit the ceiling; Slang lose one's cool, go up the wall, US blow one's stack or cool, flip (one's lid), freak out:
He exploded when he learned his car had been smashed up.
Collocation
1 blow up
VERB + EXPLODE
be liable to
The chemical is liable to explode on contact with water.
| fail to
A blast bomb was thrown but the device failed to explode.
2 get angry/dangerous/moving
ADV.
literally | suddenly
VERB + EXPLODE
be about to, be ready to, be set to
A row over public spending is set to explode.
| be liable to, be likely to | seem to
PREP.
into
He suddenly exploded into action.
| with
She literally exploded with anger.
Concise dictionary
explodes|exploded|explodingɪk'spləʊdverb
+cause to burst with a violent release of energy
+burst outward, usually with noise
+show a violent emotional reaction
+be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
+destroy by exploding
+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
+burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"
+increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner
