Verb

(explod)

To destroy with an explosion.

The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.

To destroy violently or abruptly.

They sought to explode the myth.

To create an exploded view.

Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.

(archaic) To disprove or debunk.

*, II, 344

Astrology is required by many famous physiciansdoubted of, and exploded by others.

To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.

The bomb explodes .

(figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst.

She exploded when I criticised her hat.

* 1902 , Albert R. Carman, “My Bridal Trip” (short story), in The Canadian Magazine , Volume 20, Number 1 (November 1902), page 15:

“Nonsense!” Jack exploded at me. “Why Miss Bertram here knocked that theory into a cocked hat coming over on the train.”

(computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.

* 2004 , Hugh E. Williams, ?David Lane, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL

The third check uses the exploded data stored in the array $parts and the function checkdate() to test if the date is a valid calendar date.

To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.

* 1992 , "Steve Tibbett", PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.'' (on newsgroup ''comp.compression )

I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work

Verb

(surg)

(lb) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03, author=David S. Senchina, volume=101, issue=2, page=134

, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Athletics and Herbal Supplements , passage=Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.}}

To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.

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*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, work=BBC

, title= Wales 2-1 Montenegro , passage=Wales began the second half as they ended the first, closing down Montenegro quickly and the pressure told as Bale surged into the box and pulled the ball back for skipper Ramsey, arriving on cue, to double their lead.}}

To slack off a line.