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imploder

imploder noun: a person who directs their anger inward.

Noun

imploder (plural imploders)

  1. A person who directs their anger inward.
    • To a certain extent anger is natural. The therapeutic question is to determine how anger affects attitude and managerial skills. In general, anger behaviour results in the so-called anger personalities: the exploders and the imploders.2012, Daniël Louw, Network of the Human Soul, page 157
    • Imploders have a tendency to hold in their stress for long periods of time […]Shut the Duck Up!!! (page 111)
  2. A device used to create underwater shock waves by causing water to rush into a region of low pressure.
  3. A weapon or other device that causes implosion.
    • Ship to ship actions once again became brutally short. Warhead designers quickly realized that they could change the compression pattern and sequence of the new gravitic imploders to somewhat shape the resulting release of radiation.2011, David Weber, In Fire Forged: Worlds of Honor V

Forms of imploder

pluralimploders

Origin of imploder

From implode + -er.

Questions about imploder

What does imploder mean?
Imploder means a person who directs their anger inward.
What part of speech is imploder?
Imploder is a noun.
What is the plural of imploder?
The plural of imploder is imploders.

Words near imploder in the dictionary

  1. implings
  2. implode
  3. imploded
  4. implodent
  5. implodents
  6. imploder
  7. imploders
  8. implodes
  9. imploding
  10. imploration
  11. implorations

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