displode

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verb

To burst with a loud bang; to explode.

OriginLatin displōdō →
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Meanings

verbdisplode (third-person singular simple present displodes, present participle disploding, simple past and past participle disploded)

present singular third person displodes · participle present disploding · participle past disploded · past disploded

  1. archaicintransitiveTo burst with a loud bang; to explode.

    disploding engines

    1858, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality
  2. archaictransitiveTo burst; to cause to explode.

    In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

    1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
explode

Origin

  1. Latindisplōdō
  2. Englishdisplode

From Latin displōdō, from dis- + plaudō.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “displode,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/displode.

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