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(v)
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
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(intransitive) To erupt.
(intransitive) To break from internal pressure.
(intransitive) To explode, blow up
To escape; to free oneself.
(idiomatic, intransitive) To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip.
(adj)
(slang) Intoxicated, drunk.
(n)
A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.
Able to, or likely to, explode.
(intransitive) To produce an air current.
(colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
(transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
An instance where something splits.
(intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
(intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
(sewing) To undo sewing stitches.
(transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something)
A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).
(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
The act of performing a jump.
(intransitive) To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
(transitive) To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
(intransitive, informal) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
(transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
(impersonal, chiefly US) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
(by extension) (transitive) To furnish (a container, etc.) with a tap (noun etymology 1, sense 2.2) so that liquid can be drawn.
The action of dropping bombs from the air.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
(intransitive) To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
(intransitive) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
(transitive, dated, obsolete) To redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.
(transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
(intransitive) To fall apart; to break up into parts.
A burst, split, or break.
To burn; to catch fire.
A sudden bright light.
(intransitive) To explode.
An explosion itself.
(transitive, for an item or group) To destroy (something) by explosion or figuratively similar disasters (e.g. a scandal for a company).
Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
Abbreviation of explode. [(transitive) To destroy with an explosion.]
(archaic, intransitive) To burst with a loud bang; to explode.
(intransitive, usually with at) To continue shooting rapidly.
(archaic) To detonate.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To fail; to produce no or very poor results; to drop out of or be eliminated from a competition.
(intransitive) To catch fire and burn until destroyed.
(informal) To destroy totally by explosion.
(intransitive) To burst asunder; break; shatter.
(transitive, idiomatic) To forgive and not punish.
(intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently.
(transitive) To extinguish something, especially a flame, especially by means of a strong current of air or another gas.
(ambitransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction.
(idiomatic) To shirk or disregard (a duty or person).
(intransitive) To tire due to overwork; to overwork to one's limit.
(transitive) To eject.
(intransitive) To self-destruct.
(transitive) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
(ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
(idiomatic, ambitransitive) To destroy, or be destroyed by smashing.
(transitive) To destroy by ripping.
Obsolete form of expel. [(transitive) To eject.]
To fire from a weapon.
(obsolete) To expel, usually by means of violence.
(transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
(transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
(intransitive) To give rise to, or to undergo, eclosion.
(transitive) To convert (an exploded view) back to the original drawing or model.
(transitive, archaic) To blast completely; wither up.
(transitive, idiomatic, US) To flabbergast; to impress greatly.
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
(transitive) To blow out (all senses)
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
To expunge or erase.
(literally) To eliminate by cooking.
Misspelling of destroy. [(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.]
(transitive) To fragment; to break into small pieces or concepts.
(transitive, obsolete or nonstandard) To exterminate (someone or something); to destroy.
(transitive) To destroy by burning.
(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
(transitive) To send to oblivion; to destroy or eliminate.
(transitive, chiefly dialectal) To put out; extinguish.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To fail disastrously.
A nuclear weapon.