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implode en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Back-formation from implosion.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently.
    • The submarine imploded as it sank below its crush depth.
  2. (broadly, intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently. ▸ To suddenly lose support in all areas of a campaign simultaneously.
    • Ragusa's campaign imploded after she confused coal mining with oil drilling during a speech.
  3. (transitive) To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.
  4. The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.
  5. (transitive) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.
    • I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […] 1992, Steve Tibbett, “PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.”, in comp.compression (Usenet):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
imploding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
implodes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
imploded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
imploded Tense=Past lexicographic

Antonyms

explode · explode · explode

Deriveds

imploder

Translations (14)

it implodere (to collapse or burst inward violently) · fi luhistua (to collapse or burst inward violently) · no kollapse (to collapse or burst inward violently) · es implosionar (to collapse or burst inward violently) · sv implodera (to collapse or burst inward violently) · no implodere (to collapse or burst inward violently) · de implodieren (to collapse or burst inward violently) · ru взрываться (to collapse or burst inward violently) · fr imploser (to collapse or burst inward violently) · pt implodir (to collapse or burst inward violently) · io implozar (to collapse or burst inward violently) · tr yıkılmak (to collapse or burst inward violently) · pl implodować (to collapse or burst inward violently) · fi romahtaa (to collapse or burst inward violently)