English-Finnish translations for explode

• räjähtää
  Matkapuhelimet saattoivat ylikuumentua tai jopa räjähtää latauksen aikana. Mobile phones could overheat or even explode during the charging process.
  Olen yhä enemmän huolestunut siitä, että Kosovo on seuraava ruutitynnyri, joka räjähtää Balkanilla. I am getting increasingly worried that Kosovo will be the next keg to explode in the Balkans.
  Kohta Algeriassa räjähtää, eikä meillä ole päätöstä tällaiselta alalta. Before we know it Algeria might explode, and no decisions will have been taken on such an issue.
• räjäyttää
  Ranskalais-saksalainen kumppanuus on liikkeellepaneva voima, mutta siitä ei saa muodostua ruutitynnyriä, joka räjäyttää koko Euroopan. The Franco-German relationship is a driving force, but this driving force must not turn into a detonator that would cause Europe to explode.

Definition of explode

• To destroy with an explosion
• To destroy violently or abruptly
• To create an exploded view of
• To disprove or debunk
• To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off
• To make a violent or emotional outburst
• To increase suddenly
• To break into several smaller strings by removing the separators
• To decompress that was previously imploded
• To open all doors and hatches on an automobile

Examples

• The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb
• They sought to explode the myth
• Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible
• The bomb explodes
• She exploded when I criticised her hat

Related words

• exploded
• unexploded
• exploded view
• unexploded shell