implode

Definitions


[ɪmˈpləʊd], (Verb)

Definitions:
- collapse or cause to collapse violently inwards
(e.g: both the windows had imploded)


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Origin:
late 19th century: from in- ‘within’ + Latin plodere, plaudere ‘to clap’, on the pattern of explode




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