Crossword-Solution: EXPLODE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Explode | v. i. | To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes. |
| Explode | v. i. | To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam. |
| Explode | v. i. | To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded. |
| Explode | v. t. | To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play. |
| Explode | v. t. | To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine. |
| Explode | v. t. | To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire. |
| Explode | v. t. | To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder. |
We have 58 clues for the answer “EXPLODE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| The population of India is exploding | 1 answer |
| The island's rodent population irrupted | 1 answer |
| BURST of shell etc. | 1 answer |
| BRING into dispute | 1 answer |
| Go off, as a bomb | 2 answers |
| Go boom | 3 answers |
| thunder forth | 4 answers |
| Really lose it | 5 answers |
| DIFFRACT | 9 answers |
| SHOW anger | 10 answers |
| BREAK forth | 12 answers |
| Go ape? | 12 answers |
| Fulminate | 13 answers |
| Disprove | 14 answers |
| Blow one's top | 14 answers |
| Detonate | 15 answers |
| Dynamite | 16 answers |
| Hit the ceiling | 16 answers |
| flare-up | 17 answers |
| Flare up | 18 answers |
| FIT of anger | 21 answers |
| go off | 23 answers |
| Go ballistic | 24 answers |
| shatter | 27 answers |
| Backfire | 27 answers |
| fall through | 29 answers |
| MAKE a loud noise | 30 answers |
| Letting | 31 answers |
| fizzle | 32 answers |
| move noisily | 32 answers |
| Kick Back | 33 answers |
| Boomerang | 34 answers |
| fracture | 38 answers |
| Fume | 38 answers |
| Mushroom | 40 answers |
| Ignite | 42 answers |
| blare | 42 answers |
| *Lose it | 43 answers |
| Backlash | 44 answers |
| Discredit | 45 answers |
| not improve matters | 46 answers |
| Erupt | 47 answers |
| Rebound | 47 answers |
| Bounce Back | 49 answers |
| ___-pop | 49 answers |
| Blow up. | 49 answers |
| misfire | 49 answers |
| miscarry | 49 answers |
| Flunk | 50 answers |
| Burst | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXPLODE (5)
Any mail sent to that address will "explode" out to each person named in a file maintained on a computer at Northwestern University.
The Martians had but to advance into the line of fire, and instantly those motionless black forms of men, those guns glittering so darkly in the early night, would explode into a thunderous fury of battle.
The mnemonic of a mythical ASCII control character (End Of User) that could make an ASR-33 Teletype explode on receipt.
But now we know how to get at their computers from great distances." In the battlefield, for example, advanced tactical communications groups explode small Magnetic Bombs (EMP-T) which emit very strong electromagnetic pulses at certain frequencies.
SPIRIT LAMPS.--The most useful and economical of those made are the Britania, as they are less liable to break; and the tube for the wick being fastened to the body by a screw renders it less liable to get out of order or explode.
Quotes with EXPLODE (3)
My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night — in the moments before I pass off into sleep — ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during t…
Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1972–2019).