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displode

displode verb: to burst with a loud bang; to explode.

Verb

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

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To burst with a loud bang; to explode.
    • disploding engines1858, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality
  2. (archaic, transitive) To burst; to cause to explode.
    • In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Forms of displode

third-person singular presentdisplodes
present participledisploding
past participledisploded
pastdisploded

Origin of displode

From Latin displōdō, from dis- + plaudō.

Questions about displode

What does displode mean?
Displode means to burst with a loud bang; to explode.
What part of speech is displode?
Displode is a verb.
What is the past tense of displode?
The past tense of displode is disploded.

Words near displode in the dictionary

  1. disples
  2. displicence
  3. displicencies
  4. displicency
  5. displing
  6. displode
  7. disploded
  8. displodes
  9. disploding
  10. displosion
  11. displosions

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