Associations to the word «Implosion»

Wiktionary

IMPLOSION, noun. The inrush of air in forming a suction stop.
IMPLOSION, noun. The action of imploding.
IMPLOSION, noun. The act or action of bringing to or as if to a center.

Dictionary definition

IMPLOSION, noun. A sudden inward collapse; "the implosion of a light bulb".
IMPLOSION, noun. The initial occluded phase of a stop consonant.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne