Implode

Definition: Implode

Implode

Verb

1. Burst inward; "The bottle imploded".

Synonym: Implode

Synonym: go off (v). (additional references)

Antonym: explode (v). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Some people think you'd implode. (The One; writing credit: Glen Morgan; James Wong)
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Domain	Title
Music	Implode (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Former President Reagan was confident that communism would fall, not because it was going to be defeated necessarily, but because it would implode on its own lack of morality on the basis that it wouldn't survive.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Implode" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Implode" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	81.82%	9	117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)	18.18%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "implode"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpërthej (blast, blow up, break, break out, burst, detonate, erupt, explode, flame out, flame up, freak, let off, poke out). (various references)

Bulgarian		спуквам се (puncture), изговарям с имплозия. (various references)

Danish		implosionssikre roer, som ikke udsender maalelig roentgenstraaling (self-protected tubes which cannot implode and which emit no measurable X-radiation). (various references)

Dutch		implosievaste buizen zonder meetbare rontgenstraling (self-protected tubes which cannot implode and which emit no measurable X-radiation). (various references)

French		tubes autoprotégés qui ne peuvent pas imploser et qui n'ont pas de rayons X mesurables (self-protected tubes which cannot implode and which emit no measurable X-radiation). (various references)

German		implodieren. (various references)

Greek		Αυτοπροστατευόμενες λυχνίες οι οποίες δεν μπορούν να ενδορραγούν και οι οποίες εκπέμπουν μη μετρήσιμη ακτινοβολία Χ. (self-protected tubes which cannot implode and which emit no measurable X-radiation). (various references)

Hungarian		záralkotással artikulál (to implode), berobbant (to implode), berobban (to implode). (various references)

Italian		tubi autoprotetti che non possono implodere e non generano raggi X misurabili (self-protected tubes which cannot implode and which emit no measurable X-radiation). (various references)

Pig Latin		implodeay.(various references)

Russian		взрывать (blast, blow up, detonate, explode, shoot, touch off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		izgovoriti pomoću implozije, implodirati. (various references)

Spanish		hacer implosión. (various references)

Swedish		implodera. (various references)

Turkish		içeriye patlatmak, içeriye patlamak. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "implode": imploded, implodes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Implode" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emploed, implace, implede, imploee, imploide, Inplot, Ippleden. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "implode" (pronounced i'mplō"d)
4	-p l ō" d	explode.
3	-l ō" d	blowed, busload, flowed, glowed, load, lode, overflowed, reload, slowed, unload.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-m-o-p"
	-1 letter: dimple, diploe, dipole, limped, meloid, moiled.
	-2 letters: imped, impel, limed, loped, model, moped, oiled, oldie, piled, plied, poled.
	-3 letters: deil, deli, demo, diel, dime, diol, dole, dome, dope, idem, idle, idol, lido, lied, lime, limo, limp, lipe, lode, lope, meld, mild, mile, milo, mode, modi, moil, mold, mole, mope, oped, pied, pile, pled, plie, plod, poem, pole, pome.
	-4 letters: del, die, dim, dip, doe, dol, dom, eld, elm, imp, led, lei, lid, lie, lip, lop, med, mel, mid, mil, mod, mol, mop, ode, oil, old, ole, ope, ped, pie, pod, poi, pol, pom.
	-5 letters: de, do, ed, el, em, id, li, lo, me, mi, mo, od, oe, om, op, pe, pi.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-m-o-p"
	+1 letter: compiled, complied, imploded, implodes, implored.
	+2 letters: diplomaed, diplomate, polemized, polyamide.
	+3 letters: complained, diplomates, misdevelop, palindrome, polyamides, premolding, proclaimed, psalmodies, recompiled, slipformed.
	+4 letters: complicated, despoilment, dimercaprol, diplomacies, endoplasmic, misdevelops, misemployed, monopolised, monopolized, palindromes, polemicized, polygamized, polymerised, polymerized.
	+5 letters: accomplished, complexified, complexioned, complimented, depolymerize, despoilments, dimercaprols, epidemiology, imponderable, imponderably, misdeveloped, multipronged, postmedieval, temporalized.
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