displode

English

Etymology

Latin displōdō, from dis- + plaudō.

Verb

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

1. (archaic, intransitive) To burst with a loud bang; to explode.
   • 1858, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality:

     disploding engines

2. (archaic, transitive) To burst; to cause to explode]].
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

Related terms

• displosion

References

• “displode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• lop-sided, lopsided