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What is the verb for implode?

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implode
  1. (intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently.
  2. (computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “When stars have exhausted their nuclear fuel resources, they implode at the center and expel their outer layers into space.”
      “Two years ago, the dot-com industry began to implode, along with their freebie offerings.”
      “And without providing meaningful commentary, the pop-punk boom is doomed to implode due to its own vacuity.”
imploded
implodes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implode
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Naturally Earth repels the attackers and defeats them just before Mars implodes.”
      “New questions go begging for new answers, become unappeasable in the face of old answers, and the system doesn't explode, it implodes.”
      “The plasma flying out from the ablation layer implodes the fuel, compressing its density about a thousand times and causing it to burn.”
imploding
  1. present participle of implode
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  3. Examples:
    1. “By 1991, one of the most spectacular corporate growth engines the world had ever seen was in danger of imploding.”
      “The US is on the ropes because investment is collapsing, profits are imploding and share prices cascading.”
      “She may or may not be miscast but she can't really be blamed for the farce that's imploding around her, and nor can anyone else.”
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