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implode
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implode

To link component pieces to a major assembly. It may also refer to compressing data using a particular technique. Contrast with explode.



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The star's core implodes while its outer layers blast into space.
He and his crew are on a fairly routine mission - except for the addition of a journalist, Sarah Forbes (Leslie Silva) - when the Earth suddenly implodes, leaving nothing but scattered debris.
Eventually that kind of suppression implodes on itself, because it is a broad denial of things that run far, far deeper than material life," said Archbishop Peers, who added that in the former Soviet Union, suppression of religion proved to be literally a bloody failure.
 
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