Detonated and Explode

verb

• Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.
  • usage: "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
  • synonyms: detonate, blow up, set off
• Burst outward, usually with noise.
  • usage: "The champagne bottle exploded"
  • synonyms: burst
• Show a violent emotional reaction.
  • usage: "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"
• Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.
  • usage: "His anger exploded"
  • synonyms: burst forth, break loose
• Destroy by exploding.
  • usage: "The enemy exploded the bridge"
• Cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/.
• Drive from the stage by noisy disapproval.
• Show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete.
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: detonate, blow up
• Increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner.
  • usage: "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"
  • synonyms: irrupt

• (v.t.) To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion or doctrine.
• (v.t.) To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
• (v.t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
• (v.i.) To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.
• (v.t.) To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.
• (v.i.) To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.
• (v.i.) To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.