Implode
/ɪmˈpləʊd/verb
To collapse or cause to collapse violently inward.
The building will implode if the internal structure is compromised.
Often appears as...
- building imploded
- implode spontaneously
verb
Fail suddenly and completely.
His business plan imploded due to lack of funding.
Often appears as...
- implode spectacularly
- business imploded
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Disapproving
verb
Move or rush with a sudden force, to a central point.
The particles imploded with a great force, creating a black hole.
Often appears as...
- particles imploded
- imploded into nothingness
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Technical
verb
To collapse or cause to collapse violently inward.
The building will implode if the internal structure is compromised.
Often appears as...
- building imploded
- implode spontaneously
verb
Fail suddenly and completely.
His business plan imploded due to lack of funding.
Often appears as...
- implode spectacularly
- business imploded
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
Move or rush with a sudden force, to a central point.
The particles imploded with a great force, creating a black hole.
Often appears as...
- particles imploded
- imploded into nothingness
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Collapse
Used when something, often a structure, collapses inwards due to a loss of support.
The old warehouse imploded after the fire weakened its supports.
Pro Tip 2/3Destruction Method
Often used to describe the intentional inward demolition of buildings using explosives.
The controlled demolition made the skyscraper implode within seconds.
Pro Tip 3/3Intense Pressure
Highlights situations where external or internal pressure leads to an implosion.
The submarine was feared to implode due to the extreme pressure at that depth.
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What is Technological...
one of the apprehensions that people have about this technological singularity which is really a metaphor the metaphor borrowed from physics to describe what happens when you go through a black hole center of a black hole the singularity the laws of physics as we know them kind of collapse or implode they no longer apply a great
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The Exhilarating Peace...
Everyone wishes one day to be able to get to 100 meters. And it's a symbolic number for us, because in the 1970s, doctors and physiologists did their math, and predicted that the human body would not be able to go below 100 meters. Below that, they said, the human body would implode. And then the Frenchman, Jacques Mayol --
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Jennifer Granholm: A...
And they did. And when they did, it was like a nuclear bomb went off in little Greenville. In fact, they did implode the factory. That's a guy that is walking on his last day of work. And on the month that the last refrigerator rolled off the assembly line, the employees of Electrolux in Greenville, Michigan,
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Sleep is your superpower...
throughout the course of evolution, has never had to face the challenge of this thing called sleep deprivation. So she's never developed a safety net, and that's why when you undersleep, things just sort of implode so quickly, both within the brain and the body.
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A clean energy proposal...
it was like a nuclear bomb went off in little greenville in fact they did implode the factory that's a guy that is walking on his last day of work and on the month that the last refrigerator rolled off the assembly line the employees of Electrolux in Greenville
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Why you should define...
physically, whatever. And when I did this, it painted a terrifying picture. I was self-medicating, my business was going to implode at any moment at all times, if I didn't step away. My relationships were fraying or failing.
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Octopus Escape PIPE...
yourself down so far you could pass through a passageway no larger than a quarter since you don't have air bladders or gas pockets that would crush or implode at great depths you can live at the very very bottom of the ocean
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3 ways to build a happy...
can tell us many factors that correlate with a happy, successful marriage. But the one that I want to talk about is a big 81 percent of marriages implode, self-destruct, if this problem is present.
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Philippe Starck: Design...
with a microphone, with a computer, with an four billion years. And we know, and especially Carolyn knows, that when the sun will implode, the earth will burn, explode, I don't know what,
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Finding the Titanic PIPE...
imploded before they came to the bottom. So on their way down the pressure holes went. And that implosive event is a gigantic explosion. And it just blew the submarines apart.
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What is Technological...
one of the apprehensions that people have about this technological singularity which is really a metaphor the metaphor borrowed from physics to describe what happens when you go through a black hole center of a black hole the singularity the laws of physics as we know them kind of collapse or implode they no longer apply a great
Video examples
The Exhilarating Peace...
Everyone wishes one day to be able to get to 100 meters. And it's a symbolic number for us, because in the 1970s, doctors and physiologists did their math, and predicted that the human body would not be able to go below 100 meters. Below that, they said, the human body would implode. And then the Frenchman, Jacques Mayol --
Video examples
Jennifer Granholm: A...
And they did. And when they did, it was like a nuclear bomb went off in little Greenville. In fact, they did implode the factory. That's a guy that is walking on his last day of work. And on the month that the last refrigerator rolled off the assembly line, the employees of Electrolux in Greenville, Michigan,
Video examples
Sleep is your superpower...
throughout the course of evolution, has never had to face the challenge of this thing called sleep deprivation. So she's never developed a safety net, and that's why when you undersleep, things just sort of implode so quickly, both within the brain and the body.
Video examples
A clean energy proposal...
it was like a nuclear bomb went off in little greenville in fact they did implode the factory that's a guy that is walking on his last day of work and on the month that the last refrigerator rolled off the assembly line the employees of Electrolux in Greenville
Video examples
Why you should define...
physically, whatever. And when I did this, it painted a terrifying picture. I was self-medicating, my business was going to implode at any moment at all times, if I didn't step away. My relationships were fraying or failing.
Video examples
Octopus Escape PIPE...
yourself down so far you could pass through a passageway no larger than a quarter since you don't have air bladders or gas pockets that would crush or implode at great depths you can live at the very very bottom of the ocean
Video examples
3 ways to build a happy...
can tell us many factors that correlate with a happy, successful marriage. But the one that I want to talk about is a big 81 percent of marriages implode, self-destruct, if this problem is present.
Video examples
Philippe Starck: Design...
with a microphone, with a computer, with an four billion years. And we know, and especially Carolyn knows, that when the sun will implode, the earth will burn, explode, I don't know what,
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Finding the Titanic PIPE...
imploded before they came to the bottom. So on their way down the pressure holes went. And that implosive event is a gigantic explosion. And it just blew the submarines apart.
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Victoria Arlen
American Journalist
I think there's a lot of people going through different things where you feel like your whole world's imploded, and you feel like you lost it all, whether it's physical, emotional, whatever you're going through. If I can be that beacon of hope for people that need it the most through dancing and through our storytelling, then I've done my job.
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Gaby Hoffmann
American Actress
I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.
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Philip Glass
American Composer
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.
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Colum McCann
Irish Writer
The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.
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Graham Hawkes
English Designer
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
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Charlotte Caffey
American Musician
We did three records in three years and I don't know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.
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Abi Morgan
Welsh Playwright
I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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Amanda de Cadenet
English Photographer
When young people implode, we judge them rather than saying they need help.
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Toni Collette
Australian Actress
If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.
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Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.
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Victoria Arlen
American Journalist
I think there's a lot of people going through different things where you feel like your whole world's imploded, and you feel like you lost it all, whether it's physical, emotional, whatever you're going through. If I can be that beacon of hope for people that need it the most through dancing and through our storytelling, then I've done my job.
Quote examples
Gaby Hoffmann
American Actress
I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.
Quote examples
Philip Glass
American Composer
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.
Quote examples
Colum McCann
Irish Writer
The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.
Quote examples
Graham Hawkes
English Designer
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
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Charlotte Caffey
American Musician
We did three records in three years and I don't know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.
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Abi Morgan
Welsh Playwright
I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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Amanda de Cadenet
English Photographer
When young people implode, we judge them rather than saying they need help.
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Toni Collette
Australian Actress
If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.
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Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.
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