Definitions For Explode

verb

  • Increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner
  • Burst outward, usually with noise
  • Burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
  • Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
  • Cause to burst with a violent release of energy
  • Show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete
  • Show a violent emotional reaction
  • Drive from the stage by noisy disapproval
  • Cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/
  • Destroy by exploding
  • To suddenly break apart in a violent way with parts flying outward
  • To change in a very sudden and violent way
  • To move with sudden speed and force

Is Explodes a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
18
Words with Friends
20

The word Explode is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Explode in a Sentence

  • One of the shells failed to explode.
  • These occasional skirmishes may soon explode into all-out war.
  • The birds suddenly exploded into flight.

Synonyms for Explode

Antonyms for Explodes

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