displode
verbEtymology From Latin displōdō, from dis- + plaudō.
1
Archaic To burst with a loud bang; to explode.
- disploding engines1858, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality:
2
Archaic To burst; to cause to explode.
- In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.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:
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