What is "imploded"

Usage examples of "imploded".

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!

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

The laminated glass of the windshield webbed with a million fissures and imploded harmlessly, and the car tumbled through one revolution and started another, whereupon the side windows shattered.

Frozen pellets of a deuterium-tritium mix were fired into the chambers in pairs twice every second and imploded on the fly by focused beams of accelerated ions to produce a succession of fusion microexplosions—.

He squeezed his eyes shut, and gummy bits of tempered glass imploded over him.

The serpents writhed and thrashed around for a second, and then imploded, vanishing, leaving behind nothing but a coating of clear, glistening slime in their place.

And a few canny Tinmen got caught trying to skirt it just close enough to catch a few of the bennies before it all imploded.

The brig was turning now, bearing round to the north, and one morning she finally came round to a westerly heading and began to ride an incoming tide, skimming above the vast sands of the Thames, all tangled with the wracks of ships, looking like harpsichords that had yielded to the tension of their strings and imploded to black snarls.