Usually means: Rapid expansion with violent release.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. explodes: Merriam-Webster
  2. explodes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. explodes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Explodes, explodes: Wordnik
  5. explodes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. explodes: Wiktionary
  7. explodes: Dictionary.com
  8. explodes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. explodes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. explodes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. explodes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. explodes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. explodes: Idioms

(Note: See explode as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (explode)

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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