displode

English

Etymology

Latin displōdō, from dis- + plaudō.

Verb

displode (third-person singular simple present displodes, present participle disploding, simple past and past participle disploded)

  1. (intransitive) To burst with a loud report; to explode.
    • 1858, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality:
      disploding engines
  2. (transitive) To discharge; to explode.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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