explodir
Portuguese, verb/is.pluˈd͡ʒi(ʁ)/
explodir is spelled E-X-P-L-O-D-I-R (8 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,384th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Explodir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cause/suffer an explosion; to (make) burst” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a euphemistic form of foder (to get fucked, to go to hell, to get lost). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “expandir com grande força e barulho por causa de rápidas reações químicas, como por exemplo no caso da…”.
What does explodir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cause/suffer an explosion; to (make) burst
- 2
to manifest (itself) suddenly and noisily
- 3
to lose temper suddenly and violently
- 4
to increase rapidly
- 5
Brazileuphemistic form of foder (to get fucked, to go to hell, to get lost)
Eu quero mais é que você se exploda!
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. expandir com grande força e barulho por causa de rápidas reações químicas, como por exemplo no caso da pólvora e da nitroglicerina 2. arrebentar-se, desfazer-se em pedaços por causa de grande aumento de pressão, como no caso de uma caldeira 3. reagir violentamente e emocionalmente
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of explodir
- explodo Brazil first-person present
- expludo Portugal first-person present
- explode present singular third-person
- explodi first-person preterite singular
- explodido participle past
- u-o alternation
- explodires infinitive second-person singular
- explodirmos first-person infinitive plural
- explodirdes infinitive plural second-person
- explodirem infinitive plural third-person
- explodindo gerund
- explodidos masculine participle past
- explodida feminine participle past
- explodidas feminine participle past
- explodes indicative present second-person
- explodimos first-person indicative plural
- explodis indicative plural present
- explodem indicative plural present
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce explodir?
- Brazil /is.pluˈd͡ʒi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.pluˈd͡ʒi(h)]
- Brazil /es.pluˈd͡ʒi(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to explodir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is explodir in Portuguese?
explodir appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).