Definition of exploded
:showing the parts separated but in correct relationship to each other
- an exploded view of a carburetor
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an exploded view of an engine
Recent Examples of exploded from the Web
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The hood of an exploded car landed in its crown. Instead of removing the tree to extract evidence, survivors, family members of those killed in the blast, and others urged officials to save the almost 100-year-old elm.
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The Voyager version of route-finding pins the sun onto our galaxy using 14 pulsars, which are the rapidly spinning corpses of exploded stars.
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As an exaggerated example, imagine the ejecta of an exploded star takes on the shape of an egg rather than a baseball.
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Police also called in the Sheriff’s bomb squad which examined the exploded device and took it away, according to Lt.
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A feeling of vital connection saturates the room like the fizz from an exploded bottle of Champagne.
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First Known Use of exploded
1918
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: showing the parts of something separately but in correct relationship to each other
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