Explode
- Explode Ex*plode", v. t.
1. To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of
disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject
noisily; as, to explode a play. [Obs.]
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Him old and young Exploded, and seized with violent hands. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
2. To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine. [1913 Webster]
Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
To explode and exterminate dark atheism. --Bently. [1913 Webster]
3. To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire. [1913 Webster]
4. To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder. [1913 Webster]
But late the kindled powder did explode The massy ball and the brass tube unload. --Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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