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explodă

exploded /eksˈplodə/

verb#4728 most common

Also: burst, blew up

Example sentences

Balonul explodă cu un pocnet mare.
The balloon exploded with a loud bang.
Bomba explodă chiar înainte de miezul nopții.
The bomb exploded just before midnight.
Motorul mașinii explodă în timpul cursei și pilotul scăpă nevătămat.
The car's engine exploded during the race, and the driver came out unhurt.
Rezervorul de gaz explodă, iar incendiul se răspândi în tot cartierul.
The gas tank exploded, and the fire spread through the whole neighborhood.
Cronicarul povestește cum, în acea noapte, pulberăria explodă și zidurile cetății se prăbușiră.
The chronicler tells how, that night, the powder magazine exploded and the fortress walls collapsed.
Abia se stinsese ultimul foc de artificii când, spre groaza tuturor, un butoi cu praf de pușcă uitat în șopron explodă, zguduind din temelii casele vecine.
The last firework had barely died out when, to everyone's horror, a barrel of gunpowder forgotten in the shed exploded, shaking the neighboring houses to their foundations.

Conjugation

Present ActiveSimple Past ActiveSimple Future Active
1sgexplodezexplodaivoi exploda
2sgexplodeziexplodașivei exploda
3sgexplodeazăexplodăva exploda
1plexplodămexplodarămvom exploda
2plexplodațiexplodarățiveți exploda
3plexplodeazăexplodarăvor exploda

Word family

explozieexplosion
explozivexplosive
explodarethe act of exploding
neexplodatunexploded
explozibilexplosive material

Etymology

The verb comes from French "exploser," itself from Latin "explodere," built from "ex-" (out) and "plaudere" (to clap, to strike). In classical Latin the word first meant to drive an actor off the stage by clapping and hissing. Over centuries the sense shifted from noisy rejection to a violent, noisy burst, and Romanian borrowed the modern meaning directly.

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