Opposite of burst

Usage examples of implode.

Even in his placid moods, Leland Hobart looked like a building that had just imploded and was about to fall on you.

The last remaining compartment of the Kaliningrad, the second, had imploded from the seawater pressure.

Tartarus, his lungs burn so fiercely, his eyes are watering and hurting so much, his skin and guts feel like they are ready simultaneously to implode and explode from the pressure, the Oceanids monster-woman is carrying him so rib-shattering tightly in her thigh-fingered fist, and his outlook for the future is so fucking dim, that he wishes that he could just die and get it over with.

As before he heard imploding fireballs and felt heat singe his back, and then a blur of green and brown continuing on and on and then his foot coming down, down, down to rest.

The explosive in this device crushes and implodes a plutonium core into a critical mass.

Onscreen the core of the imploding world was shrinking again, growing smaller by the second, as if it was trying to suck itself completely out of existence.

Within this region, space and time recoupled and contracted inward with the imploding core to simulate for an instant the bizarre, inverted conditions of an antiuniverse, and in that instant a large portion of the tweedles liberated in the process transformed into antitweedles which, under the prevailing high-energy conditions, combined preferentially into antiquarks and antileptons rather than radiation.

Now the baryonic matter, coalescing around the string structure, imploded under its own gravity.

The spheres and contour lines imploded in sparkles of pixels, exposing the native panorama of the convective cavern, a complex, ghostly overlay of flux tubes, p-modes and convection cells.

I saw hull plates and other debris shoot away from the body of his ship, and the frayed edges curled, imploded!

Bat only instants more, and small beastship hurtled to implode itself and Tsa to gases.

There is a way of playing certain musical instruments that is called 'circular breathing', devised to allow people to play the didgeridoo or the bagpipes without actually imploding or being sucked down the tube.

One of the soldiers was crumpling up, his body imploding in a series of rapid strikes.

As I stepped inside, I saw Milo striding toward me, looking like a day trader whose portfolio had just imploded.

The lasers were meant to implode a deuterium pellet at the shell's heart and direct the resulting plasma down a pinhole pathway aligned with the axis of the gun barrel.