exploded

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Verb

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exploded

  1. simple past and past participle of explode

Adjective

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exploded (not comparable)

  1. Having been subjected to an explosion; blown up.
  2. (figurative) Having the appearance of being separated into component parts.
    exploded diagram
    exploded pie chart
  3. Ruined; gone; used up.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 71:
      He nodded, sinking in his chair. In a blink he was asleep; the brief stimulus of food exploded in him.

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