Implosion

What do we mean by implosion?

A violent collapse inward, as of a highly evacuated glass vessel. noun

Violent compression. noun

The inward collapse of a building that is being demolished in a controlled fashion by the weakening and breaking of structural members by explosives. noun

A catastrophic failure. noun

The pronunciation of a stop consonant with the breath drawn in. noun

A sudden collapse or bursting inward: opposed to explosion. noun

In phonology, see the extract. noun

A bursting inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion. noun

The inward-moving detonation wave cause by detonation of explosives arrayed spherically around a core; -- a technique used in atomic bombs to compress fissionable material to allow a chain reaction time to produce an explosion of the fissionable material. noun

A sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sound of b, d, and g, heard in Southern Germany. noun

The inrush of air in forming a suction stop. noun

The action of imploding. noun

The act or action of bringing to or as if to a center. noun

A sudden inward collapse noun

The initial occluded phase of a stop consonant noun

The inrush of air in forming a suction stop.

The action of imploding.

The act or action of bringing to or as if to a center.

Words that are spelled similarly to implosion:
implosion, explosion, impassion, impulsion, implosive, plosion, displosion, impletion, implexion, implosions.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word implosion:
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Words that rhyme with implosion:
erosion, explosion, corrosion, soil erosion, nuclear explosion, atomic explosion, beach erosion, boghosian, ambrosia in.

Adjectives that are often used to describe implosion:
economic, sudden, social, urban, political, violent, cultural, financial, subsequent, electric, final, nuclear, spherical, catastrophic, electronic, demographic, rapid, soviet, massive, internal, impending, laser, slow, possible, inevitable, complete, symmetric, spectacular, imminent, potential, eventual, driven, symmetrical, total, emotional, recent, psychic, initial, postmodern, dramatic, ultimate, psychological, cylindrical, uniform, gravitational, controlled, global, very, plutonium, repetitive, successful, tactile, cosmic, electrical, powerful, institutional, corn, cataclysmic, gradual, structural, pinch, ablative, peaceful, unified, technological, radial, tragic, apparent, semiotic, stellar, veritable, fast, simultaneous, maximum, multicast, sympathetic, silent, north, spontaneous, self, induced, instant, accidental.

Words that sound like implosion:
implosion, implosions, impassion, imploration, implying, imploring, imploding, employing, emblazon, empoison, emotion, illusion, explosion, impression, completion, immolation, elysian, elusion, impulsion, illision, elision, impaction, emplane, empassion, imposing, impeaching, imprison, simplism, imagine, impatient, elation, employee, employment, inflation, allusion, implode, emission, impatience, implement, inclusion, implication, implicit, depletion, inhalation, imposition, imagen, impassioned, emulsion, emption, ablation, immagine, illation, impatiens, elution, amotion, imation, inlighten, allision, imponent, imboden, imposure, aplasia, eclosion, implicite, embleton, emilian, empirin, empleo, impledge, symploce.