The bomb exploded with a thunderous roar.
•When the joke was finished, the audience exploded with laughter.
2. Fig. to burst out saying something; to be about to burst with eagerness to say something. •The children exploded with protests when their parents told them it was bedtime.
•Hanna was exploding with questions.
3. Fig. to produce a sudden abundance of something. (Alludes to buds bursting or a sudden blooming or sprouting of vegetation.) •The fields exploded with an enormous crop of wildf lowers.
•The cherry trees exploded with blossoms.