implosion
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- noun
- /ɪmˈploʊʒən/
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implosión
- The controlled implosion of the old building was scheduled for Saturday morning.
- implosion of the Soviet Union
It's complete and total mass implosion.
- It's complete and total mass implosion.
- You're creating a perfect implosion from from all directions out of this sphere.
- It would have looked very much like Arcan experiment, but probably a lot worse, and we know that from other testing we've done on the implosion of objects.
- It looks like all implosions like what you're talking about, you have these craters that seem to be all almost the same depth.
- And he finds himself in a situation in which his city is literally at work with itself and on the precipice of total implosion.
- And it's terror, you know, implosion and chaos.
- I mean, I'm expecting an implosion to end all implosions.
Examples
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By 2006, I knew that the collapse was very imminent, that there would be a major implosion of the U.S. economy.
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The wealthy can't continue to get more wealthy and the poor get more pool without it ultimately being a destructive or an implosion of some kind.
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The American people are already witnesses to one possible future now playing itself out in the implosion of Europe.
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Until the recent economic implosion, the Labour leader looked like a dead duck.
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The economy is failing, and its implosion will destroy the Republic; it's that serious.
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In 2008, both the scale and the speed of the implosion were breathtaking.
Academic text (2018) -
The housing and credit markets imploded in the United States, and then this implosion moved east.
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A decade ago, the possibility of an implosion of the Soviet Union was beyond the ken of most specialists.
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Over the weekend, there were some doubts thanks to the rapid implosion of Silicon Valley Bank, which last week collapsed after losing all of its money.
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"Greece, the most extreme case of economic implosion, is showcasing the looming threat.
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Synonyms
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4.1
A sudden failure, for example of a person or a building
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A treatment where a person faces intense fears in a safe place to reduce anxiety
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
implosion = implode (transparent) = plode + sion
A straightforward nominalization of the verb 'implode' describing the event or result of collapsing inward.
Etymology
The word implosion comes from the prefix in- 'in' and is like the word explode, which means 'burst out', so an implosion is a 'burst in' or sudden collapse inward.