displode

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin displodere

Verb

1. (intransitive) To burst with a loud report; to explode.
   • Young

     disploding engines

2. (transitive) To discharge; to explode.
   • Milton

     In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “displode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• lop-sided, lopsided