explode

v

1. burst, blow up, detonate, fulminate, fly apart, fly into pieces; discharge, blast, go off, report, sound, boom, thunder, roar, bang, pop; let off, set off, fire off, shoot, let fly.

2. rant, rave, rant and rave, rage, bellow, storm; bluster, splutter; fly into a passion, Inf. fly off the handle, go into hysterics, have or throw a tantrum or fit, Inf. have a conniption or conniption fit, Inf. hit the ceiling or roof, Sl. have a hemorrhage; All Sl. blow one's cool, blow a fuse or gasket, blow one's top or stack, flip, flip one's wig or lid, freak or freak out.

3. disprove, invalidate, refute, repudiate; discredit, belie, give the lie to, shoot or poke full of holes, knock the bottom out of, blow to pieces, blow sky high; mock, lampoon, ridicule.