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implode verb [ ɪmˈpləʊd ]

• collapse or cause to collapse violently inwards.
• "both the windows had imploded"
Origin: late 19th century: from in-2 ‘within’ + Latin plodere, plaudere ‘to clap’, on the pattern of explode .

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