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▸ verb:  (transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To create an exploded view of.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To disprove or debunk.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To increase suddenly.
▸ verb:  (mathematics) To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To emerge suddenly.
▸ verb:  (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
▸ verb:  (computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
▸ verb:  (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, board gaming) Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.

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