Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive & intransitive verb To explode.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To burst with a loud report; explode.
  • To cause to burst with a loud report; explode.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To burst with a loud report; to explode.
  • transitive verb To discharge; to explode.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To burst with a loud report; to explode.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin displōdere : dis-, dis- + plaudere, to clap, beat.]

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