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explode
English
Alternative forms
- asplode, esplode (both non-standard)
Etymology
First recorded around 1538, from the Latin verb expl?dere meaning to "drive out or off by clapping". The meaning was originally theatrical, "to drive an actor off the stage by making noise," hence meaning to "to drive out" or "to reject". From ex- (“out”) + plaudere (“to clap; to applaud”). In English it used to mean to "drive out with violence and sudden noise" (from around 1660), and later meaning to "go off with a loud noise" (from around 1790).
The sense of "bursting with destructive force" is first recorded around 1882.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?spl??d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?splo?d/
- Rhymes: -??d
Verb
explode (third-person singular simple present explodes, present participle exploding, simple past and past participle exploded)
- (transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
- Synonyms: blow up, blow, blast, burst
- (transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
- (transitive) To create an exploded view of.
- (transitive, archaic) To disprove or debunk.
- , II, 344
- Astrology is required by many famous physicians […] doubted of, and exploded by others.
- 1783, Richard Wooddeson, Lectures on the Law of England, 229
- Another instance of the like nature is, that the old opinion, that Turks and infidels are perpetually to be considered as alien enemies, has been long exploded.
- , II, 344
- (intransitive) To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To make a violent or emotional outburst.
- Synonym: blow up
- 1902, Albert R. Carman, “My Bridal Trip” (short story), in The Canadian Magazine, Volume 20, Number 1 (November 1902), page 15:
- “Nonsense!” Jack exploded at me. “Why Miss Bertram here knocked that theory into a cocked hat coming over on the train.”
- (figuratively, intransitive) To increase suddenly.
- Synonym: blow up
- (computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- 2004, Hugh E. Williams, David Lane, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
- The third check uses the exploded data stored in the array $parts and the function checkdate() to test if the date is a valid calendar date.
- 2004, Hugh E. Williams, David Lane, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- Synonym: unstring
- 1992, "Steve Tibbett", PKZIP Implode compression/decompression. (on newsgroup comp.compression)
- I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]
- (transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
Conjugation
Related terms
- explosion
- explosive
- implode
- implosive
- applaud
Translations
Latin
Verb
expl?de
- second-person singular present active imperative of expl?d?
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undermine
English
Etymology
From under- +? mine.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?nd??ma?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Verb
undermine (third-person singular simple present undermines, present participle undermining, simple past and past participle undermined)
- To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap. [from 14th c.]
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 312:
- Martin, for instance, had on one occasion undermined a tree sacred to old gods, then stood in the path of its fall, but forced it to fall elsewhere by making the sign of the Cross.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 312:
- (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage. [from 15th c.]
- To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water.
Antonyms
- undergird
Translations
Further reading
- undermine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- undermine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- undermine at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “undermine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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- what undermined the tokugawa rule
- what undermined reconstruction
- what undermines democracy
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