Collapse and Exploded

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Collapse verb - To fall down or in as a result of physical pressure.

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Exploded and collapse are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Exploded" with "Collapse", this verbs are similar.

Exploded adjective - Showing the parts of something separated but in positions that show their correct relation to one another.

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Collapse and exploded are semantically related in blow up topic. Sometimes you can use "Collapse" instead a verb "Exploded".

Nearby Words: explosion, exploding, exploder

While mobsters existed in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union (a lot of people in The Gulag were actual criminals by objective standards), they really exploded with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Source: The Mafiya
Harry Kim in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Timeless" shouts this (here at 9:03) when he successfully sends the code to collapse the slipstream into the past, preventing Voyager's crash before the Delta Flyer exploded.

Source: Big "YES!"
In a more modern example of this, during the Battle of Grimspike Pass, an Orc shaman became too powerful and exploded, causing the pass to collapse and kill ten thousand Dwarf warriors who were standing under it.

Source: Our Dwarves Are All the Same

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Exploded and Collapse. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/collapse/exploded

Collapse & Exploded. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/collapse/exploded>.

Exploded or Collapse. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/collapse/exploded.

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