displode

English

Etymology

Latin displodere

Verb

displode (third-person singular simple present displodes, present participle disploding, simple past and past participle disploded)

  1. (intransitive) To burst with a loud report; to explode.
    • Young
      disploding engines
  2. (transitive) To discharge; to explode.
    • Milton
      In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for displode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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