Usually means: Collapse inward with intense force.
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  1. implosive: Merriam-Webster
  2. implosive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. implosive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. implosive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. implosive: Wordnik
  6. implosive: Wiktionary
  7. implosive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. implosive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Implosive, implosive: Dictionary.com
  10. Implosive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Implosive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. implosive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Implosive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. implosive: FreeDictionary.org
  15. implosive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (implosive)

▸ adjective:  Formed by implosion.
▸ noun:  (phonetics) An implosive sound; an implodent.

Similar:
intrusive, interpellant, accordioned, crimped, tumbly, subimbricate, compressed, compressive, conglomerate, impictured, more...

Opposite:
explosive, eruptive, blasting

Types:
destructive, catastrophic, ruinous, calamitous, more...

Phrases:
implosive therapy, Implosive consonant, Voiced bilabial implosive, Voiced alveolar implosive, Voiceless bilabial implosive, more...



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Similar:
intrusive, interpellant, accordioned, crimped, tumbly, subimbricate, compressed, compressive, conglomerate, impictured, more...

Opposite:
explosive, eruptive, blasting

Types:
destructive, catastrophic, ruinous, calamitous, more...

Phrases:
implosive therapy, Implosive consonant, Voiced bilabial implosive, Voiced alveolar implosive, Voiceless bilabial implosive, Voiceless alveolar implosive, Voiced uvular implosive, more...



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