“I am only looking for one thing from the European Union, and that is that it explode,” she said.
Williams told of escaping the British Petroleum rig as it was about to explode into eternity and would take 11 people with it.
This is going to explode tomorrow, when the British papers hit.
A chemical rocket or artillery round does not explode like conventional munitions.
If he is blessed by anything, it is the fact that the bubble did explode.
One of these shelters will explode the shell or bomb, and the other receive the burst.
But it was even worse than that, for there was no charge to explode; the pistol was not loaded.
This boat was intended to pass under a vessel's bottom, towing a torpedo after her, which was arranged to explode on contact.
In one case the heat was so great as to explode a pistol in the pocket of the victim.
Matter in an unstable condition tends either to explode or to grow or to disintegrate.
1530s, "to reject with scorn," from Latin explodere "drive out or off by clapping, hiss off, hoot off," originally theatrical, "to drive an actor off the stage by making noise," hence "drive out, reject" (a sense surviving in an exploded theory), from ex- "out" (see ex-) + plaudere "to clap the hands, applaud," of uncertain origin. Athenian audiences were highly demonstrative. clapping and shouting approval, stamping, hissing, and hooting for disapproval. The Romans seem to have done likewise.
At the close of the performance of a comedy in the Roman theatre one of the actors dismissed the audience, with a request for their approbation, the expression being usually plaudite, vos plaudite, or vos valete et plaudite. [William Smith, "A First Latin Reading Book," 1890]English used it to mean "drive out with violence and sudden noise" (1650s), later, "go off with a loud noise" (American English, 1790); sense of "to burst with destructive force" is first recorded 1882; of population, 1959. Related: Exploded; exploding.