Meaning & use
Imploding
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Collapsing violently inward, or, figuratively, failing suddenly and completely from internal pressure.
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Engineers watched the old cooling tower imploding in a controlled demolition.
The band was imploding under the weight of internal disputes just before the tour.
A note on using this word
Implode was coined in the 19th century as a deliberate opposite of explode, using the prefix im- ("in") in place of ex- ("out").
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