Usually means: Collapse inward violently from pressure.
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  1. implode: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. implode: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. implode: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. implode: Collins English Dictionary
  5. implode: Vocabulary.com
  6. Implode, implode: Wordnik
  7. implode: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. implode: Wiktionary
  9. implode: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. implode: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. implode: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. implode: Dictionary.com
  13. Implode (album), Implode: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. implode: Rhymezone
  15. implode: Free Dictionary
  16. implode: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. implode: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  2. implode: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. implode: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. implode: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. implode: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently.
verb:  (politics, by extension) To suddenly lose support in all areas of a campaign simultaneously.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.
verb:  (computing, programming, PHP) The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.

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