exploe - {v. phr.}, {informal} To say something startling; suggest or show something astonishing or shocking, * /The police exploded a bombshell when they arrested the kindly old banker for stealing money from the bank./ * /The principal exploded a bombshell by cancelling the dance as a penalty./ * /Political leaders exploded a bombshell when they picked the young lawyer to run for mayor./

exploe - (War and Weaponry) see device

exploe - v.
1 a intr. (of gas, gunpowder, a bomb, a boiler, etc.) expand suddenly with a loud noise owing to a release of internal energy. b tr. cause (a bomb etc.) to explode.
2 intr. give vent suddenly to emotion, esp. anger.
3 intr. (of a population etc.) increase suddenly or rapidly.
4 tr. show (a theory etc.) to be false or baseless.
5 tr. (as exploded adj.) (of a drawing etc.) showing the components of a mechanism as if separated by an explosion but in the normal relative positions.

exploder n. [earliest in sense 4: L explodere hiss off the stage (as EX-(1), plodere plos- = plaudere clap)]

exploe - n. & v.
--n.

a bold or daring feat.

--v.

tr.
1 make use of (a resource etc.); derive benefit from.
2 usu. derog. utilize or take advantage of (esp. a person) for one's own ends.

exploitable adj. exploitation n. exploitative adj. exploiter n. exploitive adj. [ME f. OF esploit, exploiter ult. f. L explicare: see EXPLICATE]

exploe - n.
1 an act or instance of exploring.
2 the process of exploring.

explorational adj.

exploe - adj.
1 (of discussion etc.) preliminary, serving to establish procedure etc.
2 of or concerning exploration or investigation (exploratory surgery).