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simple past and past participle of explode examples
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Having been subjected to an explosion; blown up. examples
Ruined; gone; used up. quotations examples
He nodded, sinking in his chair. In a blink he was asleep; the brief stimulus of food exploded in him.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 71