implode
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- v burst inward
The bottle imploded
- Shanties that look as if they were about to implode perch uneasily on streets set at a San Francisco diagonal.
- At Beau-Rivage Palace, she delights in exploring dishes that implode with liquid centers and contrast hot and cold.
- With Reagan and Thatcher in power, the application of judicious pressure on the Soviet state to encourage it to reform or abolish itself, or to implode, became an admissible policy.